• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Holy Wells of Cork & Kerry

not all who wander are lost

  • Home
  • Blog
  • On Wells
    • A Few Statistics
    • The Water & the Cure
    • Saints & Sinners
    • Pilgrimage, Partying & Paying the Rounds
    • Sacred Trees
    • Blessed Fish
    • Feast Days (dates)
  • Gazetteer
    • Cork City
    • East Cork
    • North Cork
    • West Cork
    • Dingle Peninsula
    • Iveragh Peninsula & Valentia Island
    • North Kerry
    • South Kerry
    • Elsewhere
  • Contact me
  • Privacy Policy

penitential station

Patrick’s Well: trees, trout & a strange mound

15th March 2022 7 Comments

In search for a well for St Patrick’s Day where better to start than a townland encouragingly called Patrickswell. This one is in County Limerick which has nineteen wells dedicated to the patron saint – quite a contrast to County Cork which has only two and I have yet to come across any dedicated to […]

Filed Under: Limerick Tagged With: bile blessed tree Eyes Grange Stone Circle Harry Clarke studio Headaches knockainey Lough Gur patrickswell penitential station pilgrimage rounds Schools' Folklore Project St Patrick stained glass Stomach ailments trout

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

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

Two wells on Valentia Island

24th February 2019 10 Comments

A couple of days staying on Valentia Island. The weather roared and howled around us with a complex mixture of snow and sleet, gales and glorious sunshine. Our comfy base was the Royal Hotel Valentia – a roaring fire and excellent food welcoming us after each hard day’s well hunt. Valentia is a remarkable place […]

Filed Under: Iveragh Peninsula Tagged With: Blasket Islands Cahersiveen Christy Moore cilleen cross slab currach Dictionary of Irish Saints Failte Ireland Photographic Collection Fenit George Walsh grotto Harry Clarke Honan Chapel Imleach Bog Isle of the Blessed Judas Iscariot Kerry Knight of Kerry Knightstown leacht Marian year Michael Healey Mount Brandon Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis pelican penitential station Portmagee Rheumatism rounds Royal Valentia Hotel Schools' Folklore Project Shaun Davey Skellig Michael slate quarry St Brendan St Ita stained glass The Kerryman Tim Severin Valentia Island

Two incredibly hard to find wells on the Mizen

1st September 2016 Leave a Comment

I knew these two wells might be a little challenging, but the sun was shining, they were fairly close together and it seemed a great excuse to drive out to the very end of the Mizen Peninsula. Well of the Saints, Tobar na Naomh, Tobaraneeve,Dunlough The drive out to Dunlough Head is stupendous. The roads get […]

Filed Under: West Cork Tagged With: Barley Cove Crookhaven Dunlough Castle Goleen Infant of Prague Mental health Mizen penitential station Schools' Folklore Project St Brendan St John's Eve Three Castle

On the trail of St Finbarr

21st July 2016 6 Comments

st finbarr dunmanway

Today’s adventure was centred around the scenic back roads between Dunmanway and Crookstown, a day of exploration with my pals Robert and Finola from Roaringwater Journal. Several holy wells were of course on the agenda. St Finbarr’s Well, Tobar na Daibhche, DunmanwayFirst stop was St Finbarr’s Well just outside Dunmanway, an area of little shady roads, […]

Filed Under: West Cork Tagged With: Bruno O Donoghue bullaun BVM cilleen Dunmanway Eyes Gougane Barra Kilmurry Kilmurry Heritage Group penitential station pilgrimage quartz Roaringwater Journal rounds St Bridget St Finbarre trout

  • Page 1
  • Page 2
  • Go to Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Follow my blog by e-mail

Enter your email address to be told when I publish a new post. You can un-subscribe at any time.

Join 351 other subscribers.

Recent posts

Travelling hopefully around Tralee

A mysterious well at the end of the world – St Erc, Kerry Head

A fairy Fort, a foxy woman & an enigmatic stone: Meenvane, Schull

Ringing in the old & the new: a round up of explorations in 2024

Monthly Archive

Index of tags

tree fairy a Ribbonson

An alphabetical list of all the tags used on this site … → about Index of Tags

© 2025 Amanda Clarke

 

Loading Comments...