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The Case of the Missing Spectacles: All Saints’ Well, Loo Bridge, near Kilgarvan

3rd May 2022 12 Comments

Finally back in County Kerry and in search of a holy well that has long intrigued me: All Saints’ Well, Tobar na Naomh near Loo Bridge, Kilgarvan. This is the folklore that enticed me: There is a well at Loo Bridge called Tobar na Naomh. The people around the place go doing rounds to the […]

Filed Under: South Kerry Tagged With: All Saints Ardtully Castle Caoimhín ÓDanachair Eyes Folklore Photographic Collection Glenflesk Good Friday Gougane Barra ITA Kerry Kilgarvan Kilpadder Loo Bridge pattern day pilgrimage rounds Schools' Folklore Project Slighe na Naomh spectacles St Agatha St Finbarr St Peter & St Paul

Tobar Eoin Baiste, Cooliska

25th April 2022 8 Comments

St John’s Well, Tobar Eoin Baiste, Cooliska Still in County Limerick, today’s holy well is about seven kilometres southwest of Newcastle West in the townland of Cooliska : an Chúil Loiscthe, the burnt corner. It is large well right on the roadside, dominated by a sparkling white statue of the patron saint, St John the […]

Filed Under: Limerick Tagged With: baptism blessed fish blessed tree Cloncagh Cooliska Druids Eyes faction fighting Folklore Photographic Collection kneeprints Newcastle West pattern percolation pilgrimage Schools' Folklore Project St John the Baptist St Patrick statue trout wychelm

St Lachteen’s Well, Knocknagranshy

29th March 2022 8 Comments

Ever since I came across this beautiful drawing by Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail in the the Main Manuscript of the Folklore Collection, I have wanted to visit, St Lachteen’s Well in Knocknagranshee, County Limerick. Sketched in 1934 there is wonderful attention to detail. The chunky stone-built beehive wellhouse in nicely observed along with the accurate description […]

Filed Under: Limerick Tagged With: ash tree Caoimhin O Danachair Folklore Collection Folklore Photographic Collection ITA Limerick Lámh Lachtáin reliquary sore eyes St Lachteen

Lady’s Well, Ballylanders

26th February 2022 8 Comments

There is only one Holy Well in the parish of Ballylander Co. Limerick – it is in the graveyard about two hundred yards from the village. It is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin and is patronised especially by those suffering from sore eyes. 15th August is the pattern day and for a fortnight before and […]

Filed Under: Limerick Tagged With: Ballylanders BVM Caoimhín ÓDanachair Eyes Feast of the Assumption Folklore Photographic Collection grotto Kilmallock Lameness rag tree rounds Schools' Folklore Project trout

Sun bright Fionán, jugfuls of whiskey & a raging priest

10th November 2019 8 Comments

Back to Corca Dhuibhne, the Dingle Peninsula, and a stop off at Annascaul to find Tobar na Croise, Well of the Cross. Annascaul is a colourful and attractive little village, best know perhaps as being the home of Tom Crean of South Pole exploration fame. On his retirement from the Navy he and his wife […]

Filed Under: Dingle Peninsula Tagged With: An Seabhac Annascaul Blessed Virgin Mary Caoimhín ÓDanachair Corca Dhuibhne Folklore Photographic Collection grotto influenza Kinard Pádraig Ó Riain. pattern quartz ringfort Schools' Folklore Project Spanish 'Flu St Finnian St Michael stone cross Tom Crean

A brief encounter …

26th September 2018 9 Comments

… But what an enjoyable one. I’m in Kerry collecting Himself who has just completed the Sli Chorca Dhuibhne – excellent walking though the weather was sometimes a little challenging. Whilst he finishes some drawings I go off to explore for I know there’s a well in the townland in which we’re staying near Ceann […]

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