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Wonderful Wells & Wild Weather: squelching around the Iveragh

24th November 2023 3 Comments

I’m just back from an excellent long weekend at the inaugural Skellig Coast Archaeology Festival. The weather was atrocious and many events were outside but we were a hardy lot and sallied forth anyway – and there were wells! St Crohane’s Well, Tobar Chrócháin One of the highlights of the programme for me was a […]

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An Turas: in the footsteps of St Crohane

28th June 2021 14 Comments

Tobar an Bhile, St Crohane’s Well near Castle Cove on the Ring of Kerry was the well that originally sparked my interest in Irish holy wells. Way back on the 30th July 1998 (I remember the date exactly as it was my son’s 18th birthday) I left our holiday home in the lashing rain to […]

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Piety, Pleasure & Miraculous Tussocks: Killmackillogue

6th January 2020 10 Comments

This sounded an intriguing place – a holy well that in fact might be a lake but which may no longer be there, remembered for its miraculous floating tussocks! We set out to investigate, heading to a remote coastal tip of the Beara Peninsula – Bunaw/Kilmackilloge, just off the R574 from Kenmare to Lauragh. The […]

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Tobar an Bhile & a lot of Serendipity

20th April 2019 10 Comments

Many years ago, and I’m talking about the late 1990s, we came for a family holiday in Kerry, staying in a cottage on the old butter road high on the slopes above Coad Mountain not far from Caherdaniel. Whilst in the local shop, I saw a notice about a pattern day at a holy well […]

Filed Under: South Kerry Tagged With: Archaeological Inventory bile blessed tree butter road Caherdaniel Caoimhín ÓDanachair cave Coad Church Coad Mountain copper mines Duchás Photographic Collection Eagle's Hill Eyes hermitage Kilcrohane Lunasa Mass Rock pilgrimage rounds Schools' Folklore Project St Brendan St Crohane Stations of the Cross Windy Gap

St Declan’s Well, Ardmore

1st July 2017 Leave a Comment

I’m just back from an excellent two day conference on Holy Wells, An Tobar, in Waterford. It’s always good to meet like minded fellow enthusiasts and it was a very cosmopolitan and interesting gathering. Congratulations to the two organisers, Celeste Ray and Shane Lordan, for such a well organised and comprehensive conference. After all the […]

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