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Some Favourite Wells of 2018

30th December 2018 4 Comments

It’s been a good year for well hunting, worthy of a quick round up of some of my favourite sites. I reckon I have visited around 150 or so holy wells in the last twelve months, all unique and all in different states of preservation, activity and care. Although most wells are to be found […]

Filed Under: Other Tagged With: Archaeological Inventory Avebury Ballybrack Blessed Virgin Mary Burnfort Buttevant; Cattle cross slabs cursing stones; Derryroe frog high cross Kenmare Kerry Kilpadder Millstreet Mushera Mór Rathcormack Mountain Rheumatism River Awbeg Silbury Hill St Baoithin St Bericheart St John the Baptist St Michael St Peter and St Paul St Ruadháin Tipperary trout Warts

Motorway Madness: 9 possible wells off the M8

15th October 2018 5 Comments

Back on the road again and heading down the east side of the M8 today – apologies if this is a bit of a ramble in all senses of the word! First a quick detour west to Ballyhooly to inspect St Brendan’s Well just glimpsed yesterday as the light and myself were fading. Ballyhooly by […]

Filed Under: Other Tagged With: Ballyhooly cairn Carn Thiernagh Castleblagh Castlehyde Clondulane. Coillte Corrin Hill Corrin Wood Dublin Eyes frog fulacht fiadh Headaches M8 Mass Rock Michael Flatley Patrick Barry ring fort St Brendan St Catherine St John St Mochuda St Peter St Valentine Stations of the Cross stone cross Whitefriars

The Red Well, Tobar Dearg: a moving well

1st February 2018 1 Comment

Having  come down off Mushera Mór of course the sun came out and fuelled by a large bowl of soup we felt able to explore another well. What an unexpected delight this was. The Red Well, Tobar Dearg, Toberderg Rather intriguingly, it sounded as though the Red Well, Tobar Dearg, was on two sides of […]

Filed Under: North Cork Tagged With: Blessed Virgin Mary bullaun cilleen cross slab deer Derryroe Easter frog fulachta fia Mass Rock offerings Penal Times pilgrimage Rheumatism rounds Schools' Folklore Project st Berrihert St Gobnait standing stones Toothache

Fursey, Friday & Sunday: well hunting around Banteer

3rd December 2017 10 Comments

Day 2 of the Banteer explorations and the the first well on today’s agenda was very close to where we were staying. St Fursey’s Well (or Forsin or Forsa or Fursa) seemed to lie just outside an old graveyard. We found the graveyard easily enough, right beside the road and very enticing it was too […]

Filed Under: North Cork Tagged With: Banteer BVM Colonel Grove White deer Eyes Fermoyle frog General Good Friday King of Sunday Mass Rock offerings rounds Schools' Folklore Project shrine St Fursey St Gobnait St Gobnait's Stone statue trout

Four Curious Wells enroute to Allihies

21st May 2017 6 Comments

Two days exploring the remote and scenic tip of the Beara Peninsula and some very curious wells discovered. Kilaconenagh Holy Wells, near Castletownbere The weather on day one was not promising – thick fog and a steady mizzle. We persevered however and the first well stop was just outside Castletownbere. The GPS led us down […]

Filed Under: West Cork Tagged With: All Saints Allihies Archaeological Inventory ballaun stone Beara Peninsula Castletownbere Dunboy Castle Dzochen Beara Eyeries Faunkill in the Woods frog Hag of Beara Jack Roberts Kilaconenagh church Knocknahulla O Sullivan beare Ogham pilgrim crosses pilgrimage Puxley Mansion quartz Schools' Folklore Project Seige of Dunboy St Michael

Lady’s well, Ballycurrany

21st October 2016 6 Comments

There are but two holy wells in this parish, one in Ballycrana and the other in Templeboden, both of which are very well kept. The people still visit them on the week preceding the twelfth of August and perform three visits around the well. We go to the one in Ballycrana which is in Mr […]

Filed Under: East Cork Tagged With: Ague beech tree Blessed Virgin Mary Cork City Museum Eyes faction fighting Feast of the Assumption frog General grotto Mass Rock pattern day Penal Times rounds Schools' Folklore Project

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