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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

Three Gentlemen, a Yeti & a Medicinal Draught

4th November 2018 6 Comments

One of the really nice things about well hunting has been the meeting of so many different people, often in unexpected circumstances, They have unfailingly been kind, interested and helpful. My favourite phrases have to be : I’ll take you – or Hang on, I’ll just get my wellies. Which brings me to three gentleman recently encountered […]

Filed Under: West Cork Tagged With: Ballinadee bullaun Conan Kennedy Eyes Irish Tourist Association Survey 1944 Ley Lines & Holy Wells in Ballinspittle Mass Rock quartz Roaringwater Bay Roaringwater Journal Schools' Folklore Project standing stones Warts

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 […]

Filed Under: Other Tagged With: 5 Sacred Trees of Ireland Annals of Four Masters Black Death Book of Moling Catherine O Brien County Carlow Dictionary of Irish Saints Dr Tomás O Carragáin Ennisnag Eyes Kilkenny Lugh Lunasa motte oratory River Barrow round tower rounds RTE Sliabh Luachra sore feet St James St Moling St Mullins. Taircell The Tower of Glass. turas ulcers Warts Yew of Rossa

Old Friends Revisited

8th July 2018 4 Comments

A final trip into the Gaeltacht Mhúscraí was required to find three unvisited wells. We intended to stay in the area for three days, Himself walking the Slí Muscrai Gaeltacht.  I also had a motley quartet in my sights around Newtownshandrum. But we were slightly thwarted by the weather: no, not torrential rain or floods or […]

Filed Under: Other West Cork Tagged With: Archaeological Inventory Baile Mhúirne Ballingeary Ballyvourney Béál Átha an Ghaorthaidh Blessed Trinity Cattle Coolea Cullen Dromtarriff fulacht fiadh Gaeltacht Mhúscraí Gougane Barra Inghne Bhuide Millstreet Slí Muscrai Gaeltacht St Abbán St Finbarre St Gobnait St Laitiaran Tubrid well Warts

Putting things off ’til later

6th May 2018 12 Comments

Continuing from the last blog, still in the Gaeltacht and back to Baile Bhúirne (Ballyvourney). I had almost visited the next three wells once before, on the Trail of St Lachteen. They all looked in remote and challenging locations, and the descriptions for each were rather curt and unexciting. I had resolved to put them […]

Filed Under: Other West Cork Tagged With: Archaeological Inventory Ballymakeera Bones Bruno O Donoghue bullaun cashel Gaeltacht Mhúscraí Gougane Barra Inchigeelagh Kilnamartyra King of Sunday offerings St Finbarre St Lachteen Warts

In the footsteps of O Sullivan Bere

29th April 2018 12 Comments

Summer arrived for a few magnificent days – an excellent opportunity to head to the hills and explore the Gaeltacht Mhúscraí around Baile Mhúirne (Ballyvourney) and Béal Átha an Ghaorthaidh (Ballingeary). I had six wells left in this area, all of them in seemingly remote and difficult areas, all of them with apparently little to […]

Filed Under: Other West Cork Tagged With: Aran Islands Augheris ballaun Ballingeary Ballyvourney Battle of Kinsale Beara Breifne Way Bunsheelin River. Clondrohid Donal Cam O Sullivan Dunboy Castle Eachros Gaeltacht Gaeltacht Mhúscraí Hugh O Neill Schools' Folklore Project St Gobnait Warts

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