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St Moling

Well Hunting in the time of Covid

17th December 2021 3 Comments

The last two years have been most strange and disconcerting, and we’re not out of the woods yet. Well hunting has been severely curtailed but I thought it might be interesting to do a quick round up of some of the wells visited during the moments lockdown was lifted. A trip to North Kerry in […]

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Brosna: birthplace of the sweet & shining Moling

2nd February 2020 7 Comments

Just back from a very fruitful few days in North Kerry, and the first holy well on the agenda was situated on the Kerry/Limerick border in Brosna. The sun shone, Brosna was pretty much closed but we managed to buy some cheese and biscuits in the Post Office and eat a makeshift lunch in the […]

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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 […]

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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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Two Prophets: St Colmcille & St Moling

23rd July 2018 11 Comments

I’m still off piste and this week in County Kilkenny. I will eventually return to Cork but there’s more to come on Moling! First stop Inistioge and a well dedicated to St Colmcille. St Colmcille’s Well, Tobar Cholmcille  What a very pretty place right on the River Nore. It was all go and there were […]

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St Moling: wading against the flow

15th July 2018 11 Comments

St Moling was an interesting chap and fortunately for us, his life is well documented in the Book of Tighe Mulling, or Book of Moling, written sometime during the late eighth century and the subject of several translations since. Moling was born in 614 AD in the Sliabh Luachra area of Kerry but his birth […]

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