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Lockdown Roundup

9th November 2020 7 Comments

Now confined to 5km there’s not much chance of doing any serious well hunting but we did make the most of our last days of freedom and the lockdown is proving to be a good opportunity to update on various wells (and the website). Our final day out was a ramble with with friends around […]

Filed Under: West Cork Tagged With: Archaeological Inventory Ballyclogh Corrin Hill Drimoleague Drimoleague Heritage Loop Gouladoo grotto Parc Pods Schools' Folklore Project Schull Sheep's Head st Cranat St Finbarr St Peter

On Wells 5: Their Sacred Trees

24th January 2019 10 Comments

One of the most encouraging sights to see is a lone tree in a field, one that has been carefully left to its own devices, for often under that tree is a holy well. Holy wells and sacred trees go together perfectly for, like wells, trees have long been subjects of devotion and mystery. Found […]

Filed Under: Other Tagged With: Aghabulloge alder tree Ali Isaac Annakissa North Archaeological Inventory ash AT Lucas Bachall Ísu Ballydeloughy Ballykerwick Biddy Tree bile Bile Tortan Britway Buttevant; Cloonleagh Cloyne Colonel Grove White Cork Historical & Archaeological Society craebh Craebh Uisnig Crannahulla Creabh Daithi Doneraile Dromtariffe Eó Mughna Eó Rossa Farthingville hazel tree Inghne Bhuide John O Donovan Killurgh Mullenakill Newtownshandrum oak Ordnance Survey Letters rag tree Roughgrove rounds Schools' Folklore Project St Bridget St Catherine st Cranat St Lachteen St Moling St Olan St Patrick The Sacred Trees of Ireland whitethorn Windele yew tree

On Wells 2: the Water & the Cure

6th December 2018 11 Comments

The most significant thing about a holy well is of course the water. Not all wells are wells though, they can be springs, lakes, scoops in rock, ponds, hollows in trees or part of a stream. And not all wells now contain water  – 37 holy wells visited were dry. Hopefully a few of those […]

Filed Under: Other Tagged With: Ballykerwick baptism Blessed Virgin Mary bullaun Castlemagner; Cattle Cloyne Crannahulla Donoughmore Drimoleague Eyes Gougane Barra Irish Times Knockyrouke Lissagriffin Lough Hyne Mary Brenneman Murrain River Lee Ronan Foley Schools' Folklore Project Skibbereen Heritage Centre St Bridget st Cranat St Finbarre St Lachteen St Olan Templeboden Thomas Crofton Croker Walter Brenneman Warts

Cattle, Castles and Cranat: exploring around Ballyclogh

28th August 2018 6 Comments

The day started with a visit to the outskirts of Kanturk in search of a holy well. It didn’t sound very promising: In pasture, c. 200m S of possible church and burial ground (14106). Bowman (1934, 523) recorded holy well here, noting that ‘Rounds have been discontinued for a long time’. Well collapsed and dry; […]

Filed Under: North Cork Tagged With: Archaeological Inventory Ballyclogh Castle Ballykitt cilleen Colonel Grove White Doneraile Eyes ford Kanturk Kilmaclenine Kilroe cemetery Mass Rock Schools' Folklore Project St Branit st Cranat tower house

Some Curious Wells near Doneraile

7th August 2017 6 Comments

Fuelled with a large and delicious breakfast at the  Café Townhouse in Doneraile a clutch of wells were on the agenda today resulting in two no shows, an unexpected possible and a dilapidated well in a curious position. St Coneela’s Well, Doneraile St Coneela’s Well, in the townland of Horseclose and on the edge of […]

Filed Under: North Cork Tagged With: Archaeological Inventory Awbeg river Capability Brown Castle Curious Charles Smith Colonel Grove White Doneraile Golf Club Doneraile Park Dreenagh Woods Eyes Johhny Roche Lameness Lord Castletown St Branit St Coneela st Cranat St Ledgers

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