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Well dressed – in Buxton, Derbyshire

14th July 2024 10 Comments

I’m just back from a week in Buxton, England having attended the excellent Sacred Waters Conference organised by Sewanee Liberal Arts College, Tennessee and Durham University, England. It was well attended with speakers and participants from America, England, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Ibiza, Scotland, Finland, Portugal, Sweden, Netherlands, India, Nigeria and Wales. It […]

Filed Under: Other Tagged With: Aqua Arnemetiae Buxton BVM Derbyshire Duke of Devonshire Mary Queen of Scots Peak district pilgrims Rheumatism Sacred Waters spa St Anne thermal water welldressing

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

In the footsteps of St Fachtna

13th August 2016 6 Comments

Today, 13th August, is the Feast Day of St Fachtna. At least I think it is! It was originally the 14th of August but sometime in the 1960s, the General Roman Calendar, which seems to decided these things, offered the day to St Maximilian Kolbe instead, and St Fachtna was given the 13th. Anyway, it […]

Filed Under: West Cork Tagged With: Brendan the Navigator BVM Convent of Mercy Corca Laighde English Island fish Garland Sunday General Harry Clarke hawthorn bush Jack Roberts Lios Faughnan pilgrims ringfort Rosscarbery rounds sea pebbles St Barrahane's church St Bridget St Cummin St Fachtna St Finbarr Teampuillin Fachtna trout

St Patrick’s Well,Tobar Padraigh, Kinneigh

18th March 2016 6 Comments

It being St Patrick’s Day it seemed appropriate to hunt down a well dedicated to the national saint. I managed to find one listed in the Archaeological Inventory that was fairly close to me and after attending the Parade in Ballydehob set out. The well was not on the map but I had written down […]

Filed Under: West Cork Tagged With: Castletown Kinneigh John Windele National Library of Ireland pilgrimage pilgrims rounds St Patrick St Patrick's Day West Cork Eagle William Frazer

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