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Diversions in Tipperary: Part 3. Tobar Íosa, Cahir

16th September 2024 3 Comments

It’s been a while since we had a proper fieldtrip and this one was bittersweet – the first time we had ventured out without Robert, our dear friend, husband of Finola, and one half of Roaringwater Journal, who sadly passed away in March. Although much missed he seemed ever present and I know he would […]

Filed Under: Other Tagged With: bullaun Cahir Cahir tidy towns Canon Patrick Power Christmas Eve County Tipperary cross slab Eddie Costello grotto Irish Tourist Association Survey 1944 Jesus Mass Rock Megalithic Ireland National Folklore Photographic Collection pebbles pilgrimage rag tree Roaringwater Journal rounds Schools' Folklore Project shrine sores St Patrick termon stone Tobar Iosa Warts

Derrynafinchin: a bullaun, Mass rock & stone circle

16th October 2022 3 Comments

The townland of Derrynafinchin – Doire na Fuinseann which seems to mean rather confusingly oak wood of the ash trees – lies in the incredibly scenic and remote Borlin Valley in West Cork. Everywhere was looking Autumnal and lush in the soft drizzle as we ventured forth. First stop a wayside grotto, tucked neatly into […]

Filed Under: West Cork Tagged With: Archaeological Inventory Borlin Valley boulder burial bullaun cupmarks Derrynafinchin stone circle grotto Hilary Bishop Mass Mass Rock Penal Times quartz stone circle

An Turas: in the footsteps of St Crohane

28th June 2021 14 Comments

Tobar an Bhile, St Crohane’s Well near Castle Cove on the Ring of Kerry was the well that originally sparked my interest in Irish holy wells. Way back on the 30th July 1998 (I remember the date exactly as it was my son’s 18th birthday) I left our holiday home in the lashing rain to […]

Filed Under: Iveragh Peninsula Tagged With: blessed tree butter route Castle Cove Charles Smith Coad Mountain copper mines Eagle Hill Eyes hermitage Kerry Way Lunasa Mass Rock pattern pilgrimage Ring of Kerry Samuel Lewis Schools' Folklore Project St Crohane The Book of the Skelligs turas Windy Gap

Holy Fish, Faction Fighting & some Meandering

27th April 2021 16 Comments

Who knew an innocent paragraph could lead down so many different paths and involve so much detective work and strange stories! Browsing through Sacred Waters, I came across an intriguing reference to a holy lake in County Cork that I had not yet come across: … the sacred lake of Loughadrine (Cork) which cured all […]

Filed Under: West Cork Tagged With: blackthorn blessed fish Charles Smith Doireann Ní Ghríofa faction fighting Father John Power fish Herbert Thomas Knox Kilmacabea Leap Mass Rock O Donovan Rossa pilgrimage rag tree Rosscarbery rounds Schools' Folklore Project Thomas Walford trout WG Wood Martin William Carleton

Piety, Pleasure & Miraculous Tussocks: Killmackillogue

6th January 2020 10 Comments

This sounded an intriguing place – a holy well that in fact might be a lake but which may no longer be there, remembered for its miraculous floating tussocks! We set out to investigate, heading to a remote coastal tip of the Beara Peninsula – Bunaw/Kilmackilloge, just off the R574 from Kenmare to Lauragh. The […]

Filed Under: South Kerry Tagged With: Archaeological Inventory Beara Peninsula Bunaw Dictionary of Irish Saints Francis Joseph Bigger Franconia Frank Miller Germany Healy Pass hermitage Irish Times Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Kenmare Kerry Kiliani-Volkfest Kilmackilloge Lough Mackeenlaun Mass Rock Michael D Higgins Mullagh pattern pilgrimage pilgrims relic reliquary Rev D O Donaghue Rosita Boland rounds Schools' Folklore Project St Kilian Tuosist tussocks Wurzburg

A Few Waifs & Strays

3rd December 2019 7 Comments

A few waifs and strays remain from the many trips to Kerry this year. Here’s a quick round up of those in Corca Dhuibhne, Dingle Peninsula. Baile an Bhoithín, Ballywiheen ecclesiastical site We pulled in to examine an intriguing site that lay right on the side of the road having spotted mounds and crosses from […]

Filed Under: Dingle Peninsula Tagged With: An Riasc Archaeological Inventory Ballyferriter Ballywiheen bullaun Caherquin Caoimhín ÓDanachair cilleen clochán Colaiste Íde Croaghmarhin cross slab Dingle early ecclesiastical settlement eel fulacht fiadh J Curran Journal of Royal Society of Antiquaries Mass Rock National Monument Ogham penitential station RAS McAlister rath ringfort rock art rounds Schools' Folklore Project Smerwick St John St Mologa Teampall Bán TF O Sullivan TG4 trout Twitter white eel white trout red spots Wine Strand

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