Article: Irish Pilgrimage: Holy Wells and Popular Catholic Devotion.

Article: Holy wells in Britain and Ireland.
Contemporary Review;  May 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...HOLY wells have featured for many centuries in the ... impious social customs connected with holy wells. In Ireland during the nineteenth century ... accompanied traditional annual pilgrimages to holy wells in the parishes. They often did this ...

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

Article: Mystic waters: the power of Ireland's holy wells.
National Driller;  March 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Ireland is rich in folktales about holy wells with strange and seemingly miraculous powers. These ancient ... religion. Animistic pools and springs were transformed into holy wells and rededicated to Christian mystics--both famous and obscure ...

Article: Holy Wells: Wales; FROMWALES Phil Cope (Seren ...
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  November 1, 2008 ;     517 words ...IT'S remarkable that so many holy wells have survived across Wales from pre-Christian paganism, when they were considered links with nature, spirits and the otherworld ...