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Seamus Heaney

Turas agus Snamh agus Comhrá: three wells in Castlehaven parish

18th August 2022 7 Comments

Enjoying a wonderful run of summery weather and invitations to view wells coming in thick and fast, I have spent just two days in the Castlehaven/Toe Head area revisiting a trio of holy wells. St Bartholomew’s Well, Tobar Bearcháin, Castlehaven Reading through the Southern Star I came across an article about Gormú, the brainchild of […]

Filed Under: West Cork Tagged With: Bawnishall blessed fish Castlehaven Castlehaven&Myross History Society EIRE signs Glendalough Gormú placenames Schools' Folklore Project Seamus Heaney sore eyes St Barrahane St Bartholomew St Bearcháin St Kevin Stomach ailments Toe Head

St Kevin’s Holy Well, Glendalough

3rd June 2021 19 Comments

Enjoying a few days in County Wicklow, we visited the magical site that is Glendalough. A place of outstanding natural beauty, it comprises a lush valley, surrounded by mountains and two lakes, the perfect place for a wild hike – or a hermitage. It is also rich in an incredible variety of historic and religious […]

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Trekking through Glens: Tobar na nGealt

6th July 2019 9 Comments

 … A long time he went faring through all Ireland, poking his way into hard rocky clefts, shouldering through ivy bushes, unsettling falls of pebbles in narrow defiles, wading estuaries, breasting summits, trekking through glens, till he found the natural welcome of Glen Bolcáin. That place is a pastoral asylum, where all madmen Of Ireland […]

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A brief encounter …

26th September 2018 9 Comments

… But what an enjoyable one. I’m in Kerry collecting Himself who has just completed the Sli Chorca Dhuibhne – excellent walking though the weather was sometimes a little challenging. Whilst he finishes some drawings I go off to explore for I know there’s a well in the townland in which we’re staying near Ceann […]

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En route to Doneraile 1: Dripsey

27th July 2017 7 Comments

I’m just back from a few days in North Cork, a long list of wells on the agenda. We based ourselves in Doneraile but the journey up offered several opportunities for exploration. First stop – Dripsey where there were two wells, side by side, in what, according to the OS map, looked like the middle […]

Filed Under: North Cork Tagged With: Blessed Virgin Mary Donoughmore Grauballe Man Lameness rounds scapular Schools' Folklore Project Seamus Heaney St Lachteen

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