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Kilnamartyra

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

On Wells 3: Saints & Sinners

13th December 2018 2 Comments

All holy wells hold a capacity for healing. As far as I can ascertain, there some subtle distinctions between them: a Blessed Well, Tobar Beannaithe, holds a cure – often for sore eye or warts while Tobar Slanán, a health giving well, as the name suggest, contains water that is good for you and may or […]

Filed Under: Other Tagged With: Ali Isaac Bachall Ísu Bealtine Biddy Tree Blessed Virgin Mary Boann Cape Clear Carrigaline Colonel Grove White Feast of the Assumption Feast of the Immaculate Conception Gougane Barra Imbolc Kerry Kilnamartyra Kinsale Lunasa Marian year May Day Midsummer Millstreet Mór Pope John XV River Boyne River Lee Samhain Schools' Folklore Project St Bericheart St Bridget St Ciarán St Colman St Finnian St Gobnait St John the Baptist St Lachteen St Michael St Patrick

Putting things off ’til later

6th May 2018 12 Comments

Continuing from the last blog, still in the Gaeltacht and back to Baile Bhúirne (Ballyvourney). I had almost visited the next three wells once before, on the Trail of St Lachteen. They all looked in remote and challenging locations, and the descriptions for each were rather curt and unexciting. I had resolved to put them […]

Filed Under: Other West Cork Tagged With: Archaeological Inventory Ballymakeera Bones Bruno O Donoghue bullaun cashel Gaeltacht Mhúscraí Gougane Barra Inchigeelagh Kilnamartyra King of Sunday offerings St Finbarre St Lachteen Warts

Well Shifting around Donoughmore

30th July 2017 8 Comments

Still travelling to Doneraile, three wells around Donoughmore lured us off the N20. All three were dedicated to  St Lachteen, he of the beautiful arm reliquary and multiple wells around Kilnamartrya. He is also considered to be patron saint of Donoughmore and many churches and schools are still named after him, as are the three […]

Filed Under: North Cork Tagged With: Archaeological Inventory beech tree Doneraile Eyes Grenagh Hartnett JCHAS Kilnamartyra pilgrimage quartz reliquary Rheumatism rounds Schools' Folklore Project Seán Ó Coindealbháin St Lachteen white salmon

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