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Brigid 1500: the Keeper of the Flame

29th January 2024 10 Comments

This year, 2024, marks the 1500th anniversary of the death of St Brigid, one of the three patron saints of Ireland, along with St Patrick and St Colmcille. Brigid is believed to have to have been born around 450AD in Faughart, County Louth but she is mainly associated with Kildare where she founded a religious […]

Filed Under: East Cork Limerick North Cork North Kerry West Cork Tagged With: Biddy Tree Britway bullaun Castlemagner; Cattle Clonakilty Doireann Ní Ghríofa fish Glastonbury gold trout Gormu Imbolc Infertility Knoppoge Lough Hyne Mental health Mountbridget National Folklore Photographic Collection National Library of Ireland Pallaskenry pattern day pilgrimage rag tree relic Rheumatism ringfort Shangarry sile na gig Solas Bhríde sore eyes Squince Harbour St Brigid Stonehall Youghal

North Kerry Escapade Part 2

1st March 2020 6 Comments

The second part of our day trip around the tip of North Kerry and refreshed with a bowl of soup in a supermarket somewhere rural, we paid a quick visit to Lislaughtin Abbey. It has seen better days but even in a derelict state it was apparent how fine it must once have been. The […]

Filed Under: North Kerry Tagged With: Asdee Astee Ballybunion Blessed Virgin Mary bull Caoimhín ÓDanachair chalybeate Charles Smith Cnoc an Áir Donoughmore Eyes Finn McCool Fionn MacCumbhail fish gold trout Kilnamartyra Lámh Lachtáin Lislaughtin Abbey Marian year Mary Brenneman National Museum of Ireland offerings pilgrimage rag tree reliquary Rheumatism rounds Schools' Folklore Project shrine St John the Baptist St Lachteen St Seanán The Kerryman Walter Brenneman

Signage, paths & no cows: three wells in North Kerry

3rd November 2019 9 Comments

This was rather an unexpected sight to see in a remote area of North Kerry: three larger than life statues of St Bridget, Our Lady and Christ crucified lined up along the side of a road. They were of course connected with a holy well. Knoppoge Holy Well, St Brigid’s Well, Tobar Eilís, Tobereleesh, Tobar […]

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