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Lourdes

Stranger Things: Apparitions & Visionaries

1st June 2022 13 Comments

Returning home from the City of Shrone on May Day I inadvertently passed two Marian grottoes and of course had to stop. Travelling around Ireland you may notice an abundance of grottoes! Some are discrete and tucked into gateposts or placed in gardens: private, household shrines. But the vast majority are Marian shrines depicting the […]

Filed Under: West Cork Tagged With: apparition Asdee Ballinspittle BVM Fiona Tierney Gortaneadin grotto Inchigeelagh Jesse James Lourdes Marian shrine Marian year offerings pilgrim shelter pilgrimage Rossmore shrine St Bernadette visions

Island Wells 1: Tobar Ciarán, Oiléan Cléire

27th April 2016 2 Comments

Today’s exploration involved a ferry, not my favourite means of travel as I have no sea legs, but the forecast was good, the sea looked calm and a well beckoned. What a great excuse to visit Oiléan Cléire, or Cape Clear Island – eight miles off the mainland and a really beautiful island, with crystal […]

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