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Kinsale

Kinsale: Fan na dTubraid, a town built on springs

17th November 2024 2 Comments

I recently joined forces with Charlotte Cargin who took me on a whirlwind tour of some of the wells in Kinsale, the town originally called Fan na dTubraid: the Slope of the Springs/Wells. I had noticed that Charlotte was busy uncovering wells in the town and surrounding areas and wanted to find out a bit […]

Filed Under: West Cork Tagged With: Abbey Well beech tree bile bullaun BVM Carmelite Abbey Compass Hill ITA Cork Kinsale Mellisfontstown Pauper's WEll Schools' Folklore Project St Eiltin sycamore Tisaxon Waterworks

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

Not a holy well…

27th May 2018 11 Comments

… but a Spa Bathing Well or chalybeate well! And a very interesting one too. I had an email from Janine, who sent me to John who sent me to Ray to find out about an intriguing well deep in the woods at Garrettstown near Kinsale. Lady’s Well, Ringrone, Kinsale I arranged to meet John […]

Filed Under: Other Tagged With: Ballinadee Ballinspittle Bath Francis Kearney Garrettstown grotto Kinsale Leamington Spa Mallow Spa National Inventory of Architectural Heritage Ringarone Ringarone Castle serpentine lake

A bit of a Sow’s Ear

8th January 2017 6 Comments

Today we headed off towards Kinsale with our friends Robert and Finola from Roaringwater Journal fame, stained glass and holy wells on the agenda. Finola is giving a talk on stained glass shorlty and wanted to take photos of the windows in St Multose, Kinsale. The church is closed  in the winter, apart from services, […]

Filed Under: West Cork Tagged With: Ahane Cross Blessed Virgin Mary Cruachan Wood Edward Welby Pugin Eyes Irish Tourist Association Survey 1944 Kinsale quartz Schools' Folklore Project St Bridget St Finnian St Multose; St Patrick stained glass Templebreedy Tracton

Well Hunting around Ballinspittle

11th November 2016 18 Comments

A crisp clear morning in Kinsale, we had four wells on the agenda on our way home. First stop Lady’s Well, just over the bridge at Ringrone.  Lady’s Well, Tobar Mhuire, Ringrone The well looked to lie quite close to the road in pasture. According to the Archaeological Inventory, it no longer had holy use […]

Filed Under: West Cork Tagged With: Aeongus the Culdee Anne Bonney Ballinspittle Bullen family BVM clochán Courtaparteen Diarmuid Mac Cerbhaill Eyes famine village Féilire of Aeongus grotto ITA Cork Kilroan King of Sunday Kinsale Lorrha Mass Rock pebbles Ringrone Sir John de Courcy St Ruadháin Tara Warts

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