Article: Holy Wells: Wales; FROMWALES Phil Cope (Seren pounds 19.99).(Features)

Article: Where hope springs eternal - the ancient holy wells ...
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  September 25, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... arts team. Well Kept Secrets - new photographs of the holy wells of Wales, goes on sale today, published by Seren, price pounds ... at 700mabove sea level this is one of Wales' highest holy wells. Dedicated to the mysterious female Welsh saint Enddwyn ...

Article: Holy wells in Britain and Ireland.
Contemporary Review;  May 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... of rural England and Wales. In Scotland too, holy wells in remote places attracted ... proselytism. The number of holy wells in the British Isles ... One estimate for Wales at the end of the nineteenth ... century put the number of holy wells at 1,200, either ...

Article: Down in history under the wrong name? The spirited correspondence ...
Herald Express (Torquay UK);  June 6, 2007 ;     684 words ...The spirited correspondence I triggered off about holy wells is still having a ripple effect. Eileen Egbeare, former ... however, a holy man called Gudwall or Gulwall who was born in Wales about AD 300 and became abbot of a large community of monks ...

Article: Irish Pilgrimage -- Holy Wells and Popular Catholic ...
Sociology of Religion;  June 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Irish Pilgrimage -- Holy Wells and Popular Catholic Devotion, MICHAEL ... Irish Catholicism which centered on 'holy wells' and stones, in an attempt at illustrating ... Chapter One, Carroll shows how the 'holy wells' of Ireland came to be associated ...

Article: Holy wells are our gene pool; Holy site: St Brigids ...
The Daily Mail (London, England);  July 19, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... the mystical waters of our thousands of holy wells. Many of these wells may be smothered ... Dublin suburb of Clondalkin. Irelands holy wells still provide a maze of subterranean ... estimated that there are up to 3,000 holy wells in Ireland. In fact, according to official ...

Article: WISHING WELLS.(holy wells in Ireland)
World of Hibernia;  September 22, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... EYESIGHT OR A BAD BACK-IRELAND'S HOLY WELLS OFFER HOPE. Most people have been cursed ... half. Many of Ireland's 3,000 or so holy wells are still visited today, particularly ... or for drinking. By and large, most holy wells aren't used as bathing places. Should ...

Article: Irish Pilgrimage: Holy Wells and Popular Catholic ...
Church History;  March 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Irish Pilgrimage: Holy Wells and Popular Catholic Devotion. By ... Ireland's estimated three thousand holy wells. Carroll contests the Protestant ... church and the communitarianism of the holy wells relegated to regular participation ...