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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
Cork
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. Peter and St. Paul's Holy Well (Saints peter and paul Holy Well or Gortnaclohy Well
2 Townland, County, GPS
Skibbereen townland, County Cork
3 Physical description of well and its surroundings
The well sits about a mile and a quarter from the outskirts of Skibbereen and in 1937 a Mr. Carey owned the land holding the spring (SFC 0297:143). When Amanda Clarke visited the site in 2017 the site had fallen to such disuse that she required a guide. On her holy wells of Cork and Kerry website, she describes her walk to the well: “We parked on a wide and newly made track then set off across boggy pasture, nipped under barbed wire, skidded down ditches, crept under mossy boughs, slipped and scrambled until we came to a halt in a little copse and there was the well” (Clarke, 2017, holywellscorkandkerry.com). The well has no stone impoundment.
4 Cure
Cures blindness and lameness but the cure can only be obtained by completing rounds at the site and seeing a holy eel (SFC 0297: 144).
5 Pattern day
In the Schools' Collection of folklore, Caoimhín O'Headhra"The pattern day was the 29th of June and hundreds of people used to attend to do the rounds and leave bread for the well’s two holy eels to survive off of for the year," (SFC 0297: 144-145).
6 Offerings
Bread was thrown into the well for the eels and votive ribbons were tied to a white thorn bush near the spring (SFC 0297: 144).
8 Stories
The Schools’ Collection of folklore hosts three entries on the St. Peter and St. Paul Holy Well because it was once so well used. An entry from the first by Pilip O’Neil shows the magical forces at work at the well, "There are two blessed eel's in this well; it is said that long ago a blind woman and a lame man were cure (sic) there. It is said that you must see some one (sic) of the ells (sic) before you can be cured..I heard that six unbaptised children were buried in a mound of earth a couple of yards from the well. May the lord have mercy on their souls," (SFC 0297: 144).The next was recorded by Caoimhín O’Headhra and explains the bread offering for the eels, among other things, “Why people take a piece of bread with them is because they say that the eel's will live on that much food for the year,” (SFC 0297: 145).
9 Publications
the Schools' Collection of folklore, Volume 0297, Pages 142-146
Clarke, Amanda. 2017. "St Peter & St Paul’s Holy Well, near Skibbereen" Holy Wells of Cork and Kerry, January 22nd. https://holywellscorkandkerry.com/2017/01/22/st-peter-st-pauls-holy-well-near-skibbereen/
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Well of Ss. Peter and Paul
29 June
blindness
lameness
St. Paul
St. Peter
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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
Cork
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 Paul’s Well
2 Townland, County, GPS
Gortnaclohy, Co. Cork
Killanully, near Ballygarvan
3 Physical description of well and its surroundings
a large, muddy pool, a circular bank
4 Cure
general
5 Pattern day
June 29
8 Stories
Amanda Clarke offers insights from locals: “It is said that in Skibbereen and the district are many blessed wells. There is a well in Castlelands from which the water keeps fresh a long while. People visit the well on the twenty ninth of June. Two holy eels are in the well--interfering with these eels (touching or harming them) is sure to bring negative repercussions.
9 Publications
Clarke, Amanda. "Gazetteer." Holy Wells of Cork. Accessed November 31, 2018. https://holywellsofcork.com/gazeteer/.
10 More
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 Paul’s Well
Gortnaclohy
June 29
Killanully
St. Paul
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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
Cork
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 Paul’s Well
2 Townland, County, GPS
Killanully, near Ballygarvan, Co. Cork
3 Physical description of well and its surroundings
In a woodland by a river with a limestone well house on the gable of which crosses have been etched by visitors. A dense planting of bamboo had replaced a clootie tree. (see Amanda Clarke's Holy Wells of Cork blog).
4 Cure
general
5 Pattern day
June 29, but traditional to visit the well on Christmas morning
6 Offerings
rags and cloths
9 Publications
Clarke, Amanda. "Gazetteer." Holy Wells of Cork. Accessed November 31, 2018. https://holywellsofcork.com/gazeteer/.
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. Paul's well
Cork
St. Paul
wellhouse