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St Bartholomew’s Well, Tobar Partalam, near Bantry

10th April 2016 Leave a Comment

This little well proved very elusive. I had tried on two previous occasions to locate it and had driven down small lanes, asked two women on horseback and generally found nothing. Armed with the GPS and a navigator, things proved a little easier the third time. We pulled into the corner and looked hopefully into […]

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St Brigid’s Well, Castlemagner

16th March 2016 12 Comments

This has to be one of my favourite wells visited so far. We had had an energetic day searching out holy wells in North Cork and this was the last on the agenda. It is not easy to find and seems to be on the fold of several different OS maps but eventually, after much […]

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