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St Brigid’s Well, Mountbridget

10th July 2016 8 Comments

This once important pilgrimage site, the townland is even called Mountbridget, is to be found just off the R522 two miles outside Buttevant, signed but easy to miss!  A rustic but rather attractive little carved stone welcomes you in and invites you to honour the patron saint of the well, St Brigid or Mary of […]

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St Brigid’s Well, Castlemagner

16th March 2016 12 Comments

This has to be one of my favourite wells visited so far. We had had an energetic day searching out holy wells in North Cork and this was the last on the agenda. It is not easy to find and seems to be on the fold of several different OS maps but eventually, after much […]

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St Brigid’s Well, Tobar Brighde, Lough Hyne

1st February 2016 13 Comments

St Bridget’s Day seems an auspicious date to start a blog about holy wells! And where better to start than Tobar Breedy in West Cork.

Filed Under: West Cork Tagged With: bullaun Cattle Coins Imbolc Kildare Lough Hyne Skibbereen St Brigid Templebreedy Terri Kearney

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