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Mount Brandon

An Irish Pilgrim Journey

11th June 2024 Leave a Comment

A quick shout out out to the Irish Pilgrim Journey which is taking place from 15- 22th June this year, 2024, described as: … a fully-guided mid-summer walk along Ireland’s passported pilgrim paths, with all logistics taken care of, it enables walkers to obtain the required stamps for the Irish Pilgrim Passport in 6 days […]

Filed Under: Other Tagged With: Ballintubber Abbey Cahersiveen Cnoc na dTobar Cosán na Naomh Croagh Patrick Glendalough Gougane Barra Mount Brandon pilgrim paths 2024 pilgrim routes pilgrimage St Brendan St Finbarr St Kevin St Patrick Ventry

The Good, the Mad and the Strange: a round up of 2019

18th December 2019 4 Comments

A quick round up of some of the more intriguing wells visited in 2019. It’s been a busy year for I officially completed my research on the holy wells in County Cork: 310 wells visited and recorded, and then ventured forth into County Kerry. A long visit to New Zealand followed by a horrible bout […]

Filed Under: Dingle Peninsula Iveragh Peninsula North Cork North Kerry Tagged With: bile blessed fish Blessed Virgin Mary Buile Suibhne bullaun bulley butter stone Cnoc na dTobar Eyes Lunasa Mount Brandon pattern day pilgrimage Rheumatism rounds St Buonia St Crohane St Erc St Feaghna St Fursey St Macadaw St Manchán St Michael Stations of Cross trout Warts

St Macadaw’s Well, Kerry Head: yet to be discovered

12th October 2019 13 Comments

Kerry Head is a tiny peninsula jutting out into the Atlantic, the very limit of North Kerry. It is incredibly scenic and remote but home to several interesting holy wells. Today’s destination was St Macadaw’s church and holy well in the townland of Glenderry, a place of much folklore and tradition connected with one particular […]

Filed Under: North Kerry Tagged With: amulet Ballyheigue Bryan MacMahon bulley butter stone Charles Smith Corridons Glenderry Heneas MacNichaill ITA Kerry Kerry Head Kilvicada leacht Mary Brenneman Mount Brandon penance pilgrimage Schools' Folklore Project St Brendan St Bridget St Erc Walter Brenneman

Two wells & a whole lot more at Cill Mhaoilchéadair

21st August 2019 11 Comments

The western tip of Corca Dhuibhne, the Dingle Peninsula, is remarkable for the sheer density of early Christian remains: ecclesiastical enclosures, early crosses and holy wells abound. Passing through these clusters is Cosán na Naomh, the Saint’s Path, which is surely no coincidence.This pilgrim path starts in Dingle, Ventry or Kilmalkedar and wends its way […]

Filed Under: Dingle Peninsula Tagged With: Alphabet Stone bullaun Cno na Snaithaide Corca Dhuibhne Cosán na Naomh Dingle George du Noyer Glas Ghoibhneach Ireland's Own Kilmalkedar Mary Jane Fisher Leadbetter Mount Brandon na Beistí Ogham OPW Patrick O Sullivan Rheumatism Romanesque Schools' Folklore Project St Brendan St Brendan's House St Brendan's Oratory St Maolcethair sundial Tadhg O Sullivan The Eye of the Needle The Keelers tympanum Ventry Voices from the Dawn

Tobar Fláinn: on the edge of the World

11th August 2019 5 Comments

Whilst up Mount Brandon and chatting with Mícheal he asked me if I had been to St Flainn’s Well. I confessed I had not, mainly because the Archaeological Inventory is rather dismissive: Toberyline/Tobar Flainn: Located at the base of the sea cliffs immediately S of Brandon point. It is a ‘clear spring in a rock […]

Filed Under: Dingle Peninsula Tagged With: Archaeological Inventory Brandon Caoimhín ÓDanachair clochán Cloghane Lunasa Mount Brandon penitential station St Brendan St Flainn

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, […]

Filed Under: Dingle Peninsula Tagged With: Backache Bishop Moriarty Blasket Islands bull Caoimhín ÓDanachair Cloghane Cnoc Bréanainn Corca Dhuibhne Cosán na Naomh Croagh Patrick Crom Dubh Domhnach Crom Dubh Faha Grotto Hikelines Isle of the Blessed Kerry Lunasa Máire MacNeill Mount Brandon Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis Paternoster Lakes pilgrimage Reek Sunday rounds Skelligs Sliabh nDaidche St Brendan Toothache

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