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Diversions in Tipperary: Part 3. Tobar Íosa, Cahir

16th September 2024 3 Comments

It’s been a while since we had a proper fieldtrip and this one was bittersweet – the first time we had ventured out without Robert, our dear friend, husband of Finola, and one half of Roaringwater Journal, who sadly passed away in March. Although much missed he seemed ever present and I know he would […]

Filed Under: Other Tagged With: bullaun Cahir Cahir tidy towns Canon Patrick Power Christmas Eve County Tipperary cross slab Eddie Costello grotto Irish Tourist Association Survey 1944 Jesus Mass Rock Megalithic Ireland National Folklore Photographic Collection pebbles pilgrimage rag tree Roaringwater Journal rounds Schools' Folklore Project shrine sores St Patrick termon stone Tobar Iosa Warts

Two Limerick Wells for Paddy’s Day: Singland & Patrickswell

16th March 2024 Leave a Comment

There are 19 wells dedicated to the patron saint in County Limerick but whether he actually set foot here is debatable. I rather hope he did for his presence is everywhere. He left his footprints at Ballyelan; handprints at Ballingary; the print of his back on a tree at Knockainey and saintly kneeprints at Cloncagh […]

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Views, folklore & a lot of green: St Patrick’s Well, Knockpatrick, Limerick

23rd February 2023 7 Comments

Close to the sea-drenched well at Barrigone is another well, a very different one, this one 572m above sea level and one of several interconnected monuments. St Patrick’s Well, Knockpatrick The site is gated but clearly signed and there is public access. We decided to go to the summit first and and followed the roughly […]

Filed Under: Limerick Tagged With: Caoimhín ÓDanachair early ecclesiastical settlement Eyes Knockpatrick National Folklore Photographic Collection pilgrimage rounds Schools' Folklore Project shrine St Patrick St Patrick's stone

Three ladies encountered enroute to Adare

7th December 2022 10 Comments

Day one of a well hunting trip to County Limerick in the excellent company of Robert and Finola of Roaringwater Journal. The weather had been atrocious and I was nervous as to how we’d cope as were going to be in the field with nowhere to run. The journey up to Adare, where we were […]

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Stranger Things: Apparitions & Visionaries

1st June 2022 13 Comments

Returning home from the City of Shrone on May Day I inadvertently passed two Marian grottoes and of course had to stop. Travelling around Ireland you may notice an abundance of grottoes! Some are discrete and tucked into gateposts or placed in gardens: private, household shrines. But the vast majority are Marian shrines depicting the […]

Filed Under: West Cork Tagged With: apparition Asdee Ballinspittle BVM Fiona Tierney Gortaneadin grotto Inchigeelagh Jesse James Lourdes Marian shrine Marian year offerings pilgrim shelter pilgrimage Rossmore shrine St Bernadette visions

A stray serpent, a sacred fish and elusive kneeprints: two wells dedicated to St Patrick

7th April 2022 5 Comments

St Patrick’s Well, Cloncagh Just when he though he had the job done, St Patrick was visiting the church at Cloncagh, South Limerick, when what should he see but a serpent hurtling towards him! He quickly threw his prayer book at the beast and where it landed up sprung a holy well. The serpent was […]

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