The Beekeepers' Saint - Gobnait of Beekeepers St. Gobnait (Irish for Deborah or Abigail), the patroness of Beekeepers and healers, is celebrated in …
Holy Wells
Happy Candlemas – St Brigid’s Celebration
Happy Candlemas! February 2nd - 02/02 - The feast of the flames - the bringing of the light. This is also the Christian feast of the Presentation of the …
St. Gobnait’s Holy Well – Ballyvourney
In the early 6th century when Gobnait fled her home in County Clare, she went to Inis Oírr. We don’t know why she fled, only that she believed she would find re …
Kildare – St. Brigid’s Holy Well (Tobar Bride)
Legend tells us that St Brigid was born near Kildare to a slave mother who was a Christian and very sickly. As a child, Brigid persuaded the Druid master to …