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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Donegal
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 Colmcille
2 Townland, County, GPS
Disert, Co. Donegal
3 Physical description of well and its surroundings
On a slope of Carnaween in the Bluestack Mountains, the well is near an ecclesiastical enclosure and a graveyard which was used as a cillín (for buying unbaptised infants) into the 1930s. The beautiful situation of the well makes it easy to understand why it was chosen by those wishing to seek a religious life apart from the world (a dísert, named for the desert abodes sought by early Christian hermits). The site also has an altar called a Mass Rock.
4 Cure
The well water is thought to have had many cures, but more notably, the soil of the vicinity was thought to rid rodents and other pests from one's home and fields if sprinkled there.
5 Pattern day
St Colmcille's day, the ninth of June, was the main visitation day on which pilgrims also climbed Carnaween (also associated with the saint). By the later twentieth century, visitation shifted to the first Sunday in June.
10 More
This site is actively being researched by Dr. Fiona Beglane of the Sligo Institute of Technology.
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
Disert, Co. Donegal
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
C Ray
Carnaween
cillín
Colmcille
disert
Donegal
June 9
mass rock
pests
rodents
soil
St Colmcille