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St Finán Cam: the Squinty One

27th September 2021 12 Comments

On the lookout for St Gregory’s Well, Tobar i Choill, in Glenbeigh, a chance conversation in the excellent Emilie’s café alerted us to St Finán’s Well. St Gregory proved elusive, too overgrown, but St Finán’s Well turned out to be a much loved and distinguished well in an imposing situation, located about two kilometres out […]

Filed Under: Dingle Peninsula Iveragh Peninsula North Cork West Cork Tagged With: Ballinskelligs Beara Peninsula Castletownbere Corca Dhuibhne fish fulachta fia Glenbeigh Iveragh Peninsula Kenmare Kinard Kinitty Lake Currane pilgrimage Schools' Folklore Project St Brendan St Finan Cam St Michael Valentia Island Waterville

Sun bright Fionán, jugfuls of whiskey & a raging priest

10th November 2019 8 Comments

Back to Corca Dhuibhne, the Dingle Peninsula, and a stop off at Annascaul to find Tobar na Croise, Well of the Cross. Annascaul is a colourful and attractive little village, best know perhaps as being the home of Tom Crean of South Pole exploration fame. On his retirement from the Navy he and his wife […]

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