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Máire MacNeill

A Peregrination Part 2: meet the family

28th February 2021 8 Comments

In A Peregrination Part 1, we followed St Gobnait as she started her journey from Inis Oirr on the Aran Islands, through Kerry, Limerick and Waterford as she searched for the place of her resurrection – identifiable by seeing nine white deer. She has already seen a smattering of deer, left a scattering of churches, […]

Filed Under: Other Tagged With: Aghabulloge Cathair Crobh Dearg Colonel Grove White Croabh Dearg Cullen deer Dromtarriff Harry Clarke Kilgobban Kilgobnet Máire MacNeill Millstreet Morrigan Schools' Folklore Project Sean Keating St Gobnait St Inghne Bhuidhe St Laitairian St Olan The City

A Mountain Well for Lughnasa

5th August 2019 13 Comments

Some wells are more challenging than others. Tobar Bréanainn, St Brendan’s Well, on the  summit of Cnoc Bréanainn, Mount Brandon, has to be one of the most dramatically positioned holy wells and one of the most fiendishly difficult I’ve ever attempted to get to. But it had to be done, and on the correct day, […]

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