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Diversions in Tipperary Part 4: featuring some strange & colourful saints

27th October 2024 5 Comments

Whilst roving around Tipperary recently, we came across some wonderful sites connected with some colourful and interesting saints – some previously visited before and some new. First up St Séadna, possibly St John, St Seona, St Sedna or even St Senan. St Séadna’s Well, Glen of Aherlow Located in the south east corner of Clonbeg […]

Filed Under: Other Tagged With: Ahenny bullaun Burns butter stone Clonbeg Conleth Manning County Tipperary cross cross slab Emly Glen of Aherlow Headaches high cross ITA Limerick offerings OPW pattern rag tree Rheumatism rounds Schools' Folklore Project St Ailbe st Berrihert St Clispeen St John St Peacaun St Scoithin St Sedna Tullylease wolf

Circles, swastikas & labyrinths: enigmas on the Iveragh

19th January 2024 9 Comments

The first well expedition of the year set off at a cracking pace as we, in the company of the Roaringwaters, set off for the Iveragh Peninsula in Kerry, rock art and holy wells on our minds. After a damp, mild and very wet Christmas the second week in January was cold, crisp and sunny […]

Filed Under: Iveragh Peninsula South Kerry Tagged With: bullaun cilleen Cloon Lake cross slabs Derrynablaha ITA Kerry leacht National Library of Ireland OPW pillar stone pink fish Roaringwater Journal rock art Shronahiree More St Colman

An Adventure to An Blascaod Mór

16th September 2023 7 Comments

A tick off the bucket list and a visit to one of the most difficult holy wells to get to – Tobar an Croise, Well of the Cross, on An Blascaod Mór, Great Blasket Island, West Kerry. We have often gazed at the enigmatic Na Blascaodaí, the Blasket Islands, from the mainland, usually seen disappearing […]

Filed Under: Dingle Peninsula Tagged With: Billy mag Fhlionn Blascaod Mór Blasket Centre Blasket Islands Dun Chaoin Dunquin Muireann Nic Amlaoibh Muiris Ó Súilleabháin Na Bascaodaí National Folklore Photographic Collection OPW Peig Sayers Port na bPucaí St Gobnait Thomas Waddicor

St Batt’s Well & an Abundance of Cattle

28th October 2019 7 Comments

It is the season for frisky and curious cattle and they were in abundance near the first two wells encountered in today’s exploration in North Kerry. St Lúireach’s Well, Tobar Luráigh, Toberlury Tobar Luráigh looked remote and difficult to find on the map, and it was. The footpath shown on the early OS maps had […]

Filed Under: North Kerry Tagged With: Archaeological Inventory Backache Ballyheigue bullaun Caoimhín ÓDanachair leprosy offerings OPW Pádraig Ó Riain. Rattoo Rheumatism round tower rounds Schools' Folklore Project St Bartholomew St Lóchán St Lúireach Throats trout Valentia Island

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

Diversions in Tipperary Part 2

17th June 2018 16 Comments

Still feeling tranquil and otherworldly from our visit to St Peakaun’s monastic site, we travelled another few miles deeper into the Glen of Aherlow to visit somewhere I have long wished to experience – St Berrihert’s Kyle. St Berrihert’s Kyle We parked, GPS suggesting we needed to go across the fields. A car passed us […]

Filed Under: Other Tagged With: bullaun Burns cilleen cross slabs cursing stones; Glen of Aherlow high cross Jacob kyle Mass offerings OPW rounds St Bericheart Stations of Cross Synod of Whitby

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