1 35 8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Carlow Subject The topic of the resource County Description of Well This includes well name, saint associated with well, location of well, townland, county, etc 1 Name of well and saint St Mary's Well 2 Townland, County, GPS Tullow, Co. Carlow 3 Physical description of well and its surroundings From an account collected by William Canning in 1939: "There is a cement path, with steps, leading down to the well with a wall three and a half feet high on each side of the path. Along the bottom of the wall small palm trees and beautiful flowers are sown." The modern appearance of the well appears largely unchanged, and it remains well-maintained, the walls are white-washed with bright blue accents, with gold lettering above the well dedicating it to "Our Queen, Our Mother". 4 Cure From Canning's record in 1939: "sores and other diseases" were believed to be cured at this well. 5 Pattern day The Patron's Day is 15 August, the feast day dedicated to the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. However, Mr. Dempsey writes in his account that celebrations were held here on 8 September, a feast day dedicated to St. Mary's birth. 8 Stories From Canning's 1939 record, we're told that the well was maintained by an older woman who lived in Tullow at that time. It is unclear who may be maintaining the well currently. 9 Publications For a historical account, please see Irish National Folklore Collection, School's Collection, Volume 0908 PP 117-118, here: https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/5044683/5031694 For a modern source, please see Jim Dempsey's work here: http://www.megalithicireland.com/Tullowphelim%20Holy%20Well,%20Carlow.html 10 More Canning's historical account names the well as being near Ballmurphy road, which is now connected to the modern Barrack Street in Tullow. The exact coordinates of the well cannot be found at this time. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource St Mary's Well, Tullow, Co. Carlow 15 August 8 September Carlow Mary sores Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Carlow Subject The topic of the resource County Description of Well This includes well name, saint associated with well, location of well, townland, county, etc 1 Name of well and saint St. Patrick's Well 2 Townland, County, GPS Rathvilly, Co. Carlow 3 Physical description of well and its surroundings The well opening is rectangular and generally covered with a flat slab. It is surrounded by gravel, and the area enclosed with fencing. 5 Pattern day St. Patrick's Day (17 March) 9 Publications For a history of the well in the 20th century: https://www.ouririshheritage.org/content/archive/place/miscellaneous-place/st-patricks-well-9 For historical mention of the well: http://trails.carlowtourism.com/st-patrick%E2%80%99s-catholic-church-rathvilly.html For more historical accounts, see Irish National Folklore Commission, School's Collection 0909:550 & and 0910: 2, 86-7 10 More The well is currently located on private land and should not be visited without the permission of the landowner. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource St. Patrick's Well, Rathvilly, Co. Carlow Carlow St. Patrick Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Carlow Subject The topic of the resource County Description of Well This includes well name, saint associated with well, location of well, townland, county, etc 1 Name of well and saint St. Fortchern's Well 2 Townland, County, GPS Killoughternane, Co. Carlow 3 Physical description of well and its surroundings The well is nearby to the "White Church" ruins in Killoughternane, and features a few steps down to the well as well as a prominent cross at the back of the well. 9 Publications NFC SC 0903:623 & 0904:471 & 0905:44 For an accounting of the nearby White Church, please see: http://trails.carlowtourism.com/30.html For a recent view of the well, in addition to some history, please see: http://www.megalithicireland.com/St%20Fortchern's%20Holy%20Well.html Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource St. Fortchern's Well, Killoughternane, Co. Carlow Carlow St. Fortchern Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Carlow Subject The topic of the resource County Description of Well This includes well name, saint associated with well, location of well, townland, county, etc 1 Name of well and saint St. Mogue's Well 2 Townland, County, GPS Clonmore, Co. Carlow 3 Physical description of well and its surroundings The well is located at the Old Chapel and Graveyard, which is accessible from the road. A church and large historic graveyard are still present. The well can be found just past the church. 8 Stories As recorded and present in the NFC archive, James Byrne recounted in 1930 the following story about the well: "Years an'years ago there was a monastery in Clonmore and there was a whole lot of monks and priests and saints in it. But in the time of the Danes the monastery was destroyed by them. All the saints was killed and all the holy vessels was taken by the robbers, and the last time they came there a big stone as blew up out of the monastery and it made three jumps. The first place that it jumped to was a bit below the monastery and where it lighted a spring of water sprang up and it cured thousands of people of their [diseases]- an it would cure em still if they only went there instead of to the potashery. The second jump it made of lighted at the robbers castle above... and soon as it did every wan of them was ate alive with flays and they were all so tormented that had to leave their castle. The third jump it made was to where it is now. At that time all the land around there was poor and wet but when it lighted there it said:- "Here I will stay till the destruction of the world and I vow that his farm will turn into fertile land, the most fertile in the parish of Clonmore and no one will interfere with me, and no grass will grow over me and I will be here till the end of time". https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/5044686/5031943 9 Publications For directions to the church site for visitors: https://www.carlowadvisor.com/clonmore-carlow.html For photos of the site, please see: http://www.megalithicireland.com/Clonmore%20Monastic%20Site.html Duchas NFC SC 0909: 110-111 & 550 provide historical accounts of the well's presence. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource St. Mogue's Well Carlow St. Mogue Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Carlow Subject The topic of the resource County Description of Well This includes well name, saint associated with well, location of well, townland, county, etc 1 Name of well and saint St. Brigid's Well 2 Townland, County, GPS Clonegal, Co. Carlow 3 Physical description of well and its surroundings The well is located nearby to St. Brigid’s Roman Catholic Church 9 Publications Historical accounts of the well occur in Duchas, NFC SC 0911: pp 80-81 & 90 For mention of it's restoration, see http://www.clonegalkildavin.ie/pages2/clonegal_rc.htm 10 More The well was restored for Jubilee 2000, and is still located near the modern St. Brigid's Roman Catholic Church Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource St. Brigid's Well Carlow St. Brigid Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Carlow Subject The topic of the resource County Description of Well This includes well name, saint associated with well, location of well, townland, county, etc 1 Name of well and saint Our Lady's Well, St. Mary's Well 2 Townland, County, GPS Historically: Clonagoose, County Carlow (now near Borris, Co. Carlow) 3 Physical description of well and its surroundings The well is located at the site of Clonagoose Church and Graveyard, which is approximately one mile from Borris, Co. Carlow. 5 Pattern day Reports from Duchas School's Collection (1933) report the last Sunday in June as the well's pattern day. 6 Offerings Bandages and Money were historically left at the well as offerings. 9 Publications Duchas School's Collection Volume 0904 pages, 471, 538, 594, and 596-7 contain various historical accounts of the well Additionally, for information regarding the church, see: John Ryan's 1833 "The History And Antiquities Of The County Of Carlow" 10 More For location information, as well as photos of the graveyard near the well's location, please see Clonagoose Cemetery on Find a Grave, here: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2643142/clonagoose-cemetery Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Our Lady's Well Carlow Mary Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Carlow Subject The topic of the resource County Description of Well This includes well name, saint associated with well, location of well, townland, county, etc 1 Name of well and saint Our Lady's Well, St. Mary's Well 2 Townland, County, GPS Historically: Clonagoose, County Carlow (now near Borris, Co. Carlow) 3 Physical description of well and its surroundings The well is located at the site of Clonagoose Church and Graveyard, which is approximately one mile from Borris, Co. Carlow. 5 Pattern day Reports from Duchas School's Collection (1933) report the last Sunday in June as the well's pattern day. 6 Offerings Bandages and Money were historically left at the well as offerings. 9 Publications Duchas School's Collection Volume 0904 pages, 471, 538, 594, and 596-7 contain various historical accounts of the well Additionally, for information regarding the church, see: John Ryan's 1833 "The History And Antiquities Of The County Of Carlow" 10 More For location information, as well as photos of the graveyard near the well's location, please see Clonagoose Cemetery on Find a Grave, here: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2643142/clonagoose-cemetery Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Our Lady's Well, St. Mary's Well, Borris, Carlow Carlow Coins Mary Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Carlow Subject The topic of the resource County Description of Well This includes well name, saint associated with well, location of well, townland, county, etc 1 Name of well and saint St Moling's Well 2 Townland, County, GPS St Mullins, Co Carlow GPS - N:52.489954, W:-6.929125 3 Physical description of well and its surroundings St Moling’s well is situated in St Mullins in Co Carlow. The well is a stone built four walled roofless structure. There is a narrow doorway through which pilgrims enter the well. It is said that seven springs feed the well, and so there is a constant flow of water that enters through two slits at the rear of the building into a stone font. Recent research has shown this to be the remains of a baptismal church built c. 1100, as part of the regularising of baptismal practices in the Irish church at that time. O Carrigain, T. ‘Churches in Early Medieval Ireland’ Yale University Press 2010, p 199 - 208. St Moling’s well is situated to the north of the ancient monastic site in St Mullins. The well is located beside the millrace, said to have been dug singlehandedly by St Moling over a period of several years. When it was completed St Moling consecrated the millrace and it, together with the holy well, became a site of pilgrimage. The well can be easily accessed through the churchyard or by road. There is a car park across the road from the entrance to the well. 4 Cure The water from the well is thought to be a cure in particular for ailments of the head, but cures for a wide variety of ailments of the mind and body have been attributed to the holy well. There is a belief that if the water is applied to any affected part of the body there will be a cure. In particular there is a great belief in the healing power of the water when poured over the head and by drinking it. 5 Pattern day The Pattern day in St Mullins is traditionally held on the Sunday nearest to the 25th July, the feast of St James, patron saint of pilgrims. There is a little Pattern on July 25th. The feast of St Moling is celebrated in St Mullins on the 17th June. 6 Offerings Traditionally it was not common for offerings to be left at St Moling's well. However, in the past on Pattern day there were often donations made for the upkeep of the well. In present times, however, it has become more common for small tokens to be left inside the well walls. Holy pictures, small statues and small personal items belonging to babies or children have begun to be left. 7 Prayer rounds and stations Private individual prayer. 8 Stories A Catholic priest, Fr Daniel Kavanagh is buried in the graveyard in St Mullins. The belief is that if a person suffering from toothache takes some clay from his grave, holds it in their mouth and makes their way to the holy well, where they take some water in their mouth together with the clay, it will cure their toothache. (Examples of this story and others relating to St Moling's well can be found in the Schools Folklore Collection). 9 Publications Clyn, Friar John and Dowling, Thady. The Annals of Ireland. Dublin, n.p. De Paor, Maire B. St Moling Luachra. Dublin, 2001. MacNeill, Maire. The Festival of Lughnasa. London, 1962. O’Leary, Patrick. ‘St Mullins, A Local History of the Life and Times of St Moling’ in The O’Leary Footprint Philip E Murphy and J. David Hughes (eds). Graignamanagh, 2001. O’Sullivan, T.F. Pattern Day at St. Moling’s. Carloviana. 1976/77 Edward O’Toole, The Holy Wells of County Carlow. Bealoidais, Iml. 4, Uimh 1 (1933) O Carrigain, T. ‘Churches in Early Medieval Ireland’ Yale University Press 2010, p 199 - 208. Laheen, M. ‘Conservation and Management Plan for the Pilgrim Route at the ecclesiastical site of St. Mullins, Co.Carlow’ 2015. St Mullins, Co. Carlow. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlcar2/St_Mullins.ht Mary Laheen, Architect from the School of Architecture, UCD 10 More Description of the Ritual Observances of the Pilgrim Route Entry by path from existing road. 2. Blessed well and pool of springs. 3.Tacarda = the ‘Wading Stream’ channel of water to river. 4. Path by the townland boundary to the river crossing. 5. Crossing the river. 6. Crossing the millrace. 7. Entry into the monastic precinct. 8. Stone High Cross. 9. St James’ cell. 10. An Teampall Mor 1. The path itself is short, less than a quarter of a kilometre – what is considered important is not the length of the path, but the intensity of the experience and the observance of certain rituals. Having left the road and taken a path by the river bounded to the east by derelict buildings which were once the houses of local families, the pilgrim reaches a roofless stone structure that encloses the well. 2. Recent research has shown this to be the remains of a baptismal chapel c. 1100, as part of the regularizing of baptismal practices within the Irish church. The well is fed by an upper pool that contains several springs, the water gushes through two square openings made in two large vertical stones in the east wall. It is known as the Tiopra – pilgrims circumambulate the Tiopra and the pool of springs to the east which feeds the well. 3. From here pilgrims walk to the river and enter a stone constructed channel which directs the water from the holy well to the Aughavaud river. This is known as the Tacarda and also the ‘wading stream’ locally. The stream is entered barefoot and the pilgrims walk against the flow of the water towards the blessed well. 4. Having emerged from ‘wading the waters’ they walk close to the boundary of the well field and come through an opening in the boundary into the river field. Formerly a path by the boundary led pilgrims towards the river crossing. This field boundary is also the townland boundary of St Mullins. 5. There is a place at the river where pilgrims used to cross on stepping stones these are still visible. Generally the water is too high to cross in this manner. It was here that a wooden bridge carried people across from the 1970s until the bridges were removed at the end of the twentieth century. The location is the proposed position of the new bridge. 6. Once across the river the pilgrims continued southward and in the past crossed a second bridge over the millrace. The evidence of the first OS 1839 is that a millrace in this location existed, it was used to drive the mill wheel at the corn mill lower down on the river Barrow. However, on Frizell’s map in 1768 no mill race is shown in this location, or mentioned in the notes. Hence the mill race was built somewhere in between these two dates – 1768 and 1839. 7. Once across the millrace pilgrims ascended the steep ground towards a set of stone steps that led to the monastic site. Here there are two millstones recovered from the river bed in the end of the 19th century. Local tradition holds that these are the millstones of the saint’s mill. The mill itself is thought to have been situated lower down near the river. Patrick O’Leary refers to a mill stone he found with the Rev James Graves one evening in September 1885. 8. Once through the opening in the walled monastic area pilgrims pray at the ancient granite high cross, now dilapidated but re-erected in modern times on its original cylindrical base. 9. Moving eastwards further rituals are observed in the tiny ruined oratory known as the cell of St James. 10. Walking around the monastic site three times the pilgrimage ends at Teampall Mor, which is held to be the burial place of St Moling. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource St Moling's Well Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Helen Doyle Carlow cure Head Holy Pictures St Moling St Moling's Well St Mullins