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An Epic Pilgrimage for Michaelmas

28th September 2019 12 Comments

There is a very picturesque area near Baile an Sceilg, Ballinskelligs, on the Iveragh Peninsula in Kerry known as the Glen. It stretches from Duchalla Head to Puffin Island, encompassing the enigmatic Skellig Rocks nine miles off the coast. The most famous rock, Sceilg Mhíchíl, Skellig Michael, was an early Christian settlement, where the monks […]

Filed Under: Iveragh Peninsula Tagged With: An Seabhac Ballinskelligs Blessed Virgin Mary Caoimhín ÓDanachair Charles Smith clochán Conan mac Mourna cross slab Duchás Photographic Collection Dungegan Eyes Fenian Cycle Fionn Mac Cumhaill fulacht fiadh gable shrine Gentleman's Magazine Henry S Crawford HM Westropp holed stone Iveragh Peninsula Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries Kerry Archaeological Magazine Kilkeaveragh Mountain Killemlagh church Kinnitty Lake Killarney Lameness laura MJ Delap offerings oratory Pádraig Ó Riain. Patrick Logan pattern day pilgrimage PJ Lynch Rosary rounds Skellig Michael St Brendan St Finián Cam St Finián's Bay St Michael St Patrick stations turas UNESCO World Heritage Site Valentia Island Waterville

Tobar Manacháin agus an Madra

21st July 2019 11 Comments

I’m back in the Gaeltacht having finished an intense but rewarding week on an Irish language immersion course in Baile an Fheirtéaraigh, Corca Dhuibhne;  Ballyferriter, Dingle Peninsula. (There’ll be a lot of Irish in this blog, hopefully mainly spelled correctly, but it seems only right to give names in Irish first). The course was very […]

Filed Under: Dingle Peninsula Tagged With: Áine Ó Dubhshláine Backache Ballyferriter bonfire Caoimhín ÓDanachair Christmas Day cross slabs Dingle Earache Easter Sunday eel Gaeltacht Gallarus Oratory Lateeve Mor Mass Mount Brandon Ogham oratory Penny's Pottery Rosary rounds salmon Schools' Folklore Project souterrain. St Bridget St Manchán Teampall Geal Tig Áine Toothache Ventry WG Wood Martin

Tobairín Dónail, Rathcormack Mountain

7th October 2018 8 Comments

This well was discovered at the end of a long and hard day’s exploration – see last week’s blog. It’s one of those wells that I have looked at on the map and sighed for it looked very remote and difficult to get too- also the name of the townland Rathcormack Mountain was a bit off putting. […]

Filed Under: North Cork Tagged With: Feast of the Assumption offerings rag tree Rathcormack Mountain Rosary Schools' Folklore Project

Island Wells 4: Oileán Baoi; Dursey Island

11th July 2017 Leave a Comment

A couple of weeks ago I travelled to Dursey with a friend, her friend, a husband and a dog, two wells on the agenda. Although we had a wonderful day, the well hunt was not entirely successful as the field in which the first well was supposedly located contained a lot of very large cattle, […]

Filed Under: West Cork Tagged With: ballaun stone Beara Bronze Age Bruno O Donoghue cable car cupmarks Penelope Durell quartz Rosary rounds Scariff Islands

Well hunting off the N22

14th May 2017 Leave a Comment

A trip to the airport always offers an opportunity for a bit of exploration. This time as slight detour was taken to visit a few wells off the N22. Sunday’s Well, Tobar Riogh an Domhnaigh, Rooves Beg This little well is signed and can found right on the roadside: incidentally this quiet, scenic, road was […]

Filed Under: Cork City West Cork Tagged With: Ballynora Bealtine butter road BVM Carmichael Watson Project eel Headaches Kieran McCarthy King of Sunday Mass Rock Penal Times Rooves Beg Rosary rounds Schools' Folklore Project trout Walshestown

Fionnchú: The White Hound

12th February 2017 12 Comments

Arriving in Mitchelstown in the late afternoon the light was fading and a thin mizzle had set in but we thought we could manage a trip to two wells dedicated to the town saint, St Fanahan, or, as he is known as Gaeilge, St Fionnchú: the white hound. St Fanahans’s Well, Tobar Naomh Fionnchú St […]

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