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  • The Living Spring Journal contents
    • A chronology of well-names
    • An Editorial
    • Cenotés and Other Sacred Waters of the Americas
    • DIPPING WELLS: A Gazetteer of Monmouthshire Wellsites
    • DIPPING WELLS: IS There a Healing Well in Liberton?
    • DIPPING WELLS: St Aldhelm’s well, Doulting, Somerset
    • DIPPING WELLS: The Ancient Springs of the Valley of the Sandbrook: a vignette
      • Eighteenth century view looking across the River Avon
    • DIPPING WELLS: The Holy Well, or St Cloud’s Well, at Longthorpe Park near Peterborough
      • An early illustration showing the well as part of a landscaped estate and suggesting it may have been a folly
      • The entrance to the grotto part of the well and the bath
    • Dipping Wells: The Wishing Well and rock Hermitage at High Hurstwood
      • The site of the Hermit’s Well at the end of the garden
    • DIPPING WELLS: Wells and Springs around Trellech
    • DIPPING WELLS: Wiltshire Healing Wells and the Strange Case of Purton Spa: What do the healing wells cure?
      • Wiltshire references
    • How do wells become holy?
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    • The Wellsprings Fellowship: a brief introduction
    • WELL RESEARCHED: Holy Wells and Other Holy Places
      • St Augustine’s well, Cerne Abbas, Dorset
      • St Wita’s well, Whitchurch Canonicorum, Dorset
    • WELL RESTORED The Holy Well, Morvah: a well lost and found
    • WELL RESTORED: A Village Well, Donhead St Mary, Wiltshire
    • WELL RESTORED: A Village Well, Donhead St Mary, Wiltshire
    • WELL RESTORED: A Village Well, Donhead St Mary, Wiltshire
    • WELLS IN DEPTH: The Documentation of Ffynnon Ddeier: Some Problems Reconsidered
      • Ffynnon Ddeier: cultus
      • Ffynnon Ddeier: legend
      • WELLS IN DEPTH Boundaries
      • WELLS IN DEPTH: Bibliography
      • Wells in depth: Notes
      • WELLS IN DEPTH: Processions
      • Wells in depth: References
    • WHOLLY WELL READ – Christina Martin (2000)
    • WHOLLY WELL READ – James Rattue (2001)
    • WHOLLY WELL READ – Robert Charles Hope (2000)
    • WHOLLY WELL READ Lincolnshire Springs and Wells: a descriptive catalogue
    • WHOLLY WELL READ: Stone and Tree Sheltering Water
    • WHOLLY WELL READ: The Ancient Crosses and Wells of Lancashire a revised version
    • Wiltshire Healing Wells and the Strange Case of Purton Spa
      • Histogram showing the frequency of healing properties associated with wells in Wiltshire
      • Table comparing contemporary accounts of Salt’s Hole/Purton Spa with writings in 1990s
  • The Source (1984-88, 94-96) and Living Spring Journal (2000) Online Archive – An Introduction
  • The SOURCE The Holy Wells Journal First Series Contents
    • A Dream of Holywell
    • A Letter and a Poem
    • A Marlow Well
    • Ancient, Healing and Holy Wells of County Durham
    • Becket’s Well, Otford, Kent
    • Bottled Water
    • Buckinghamshire Wells
    • Caesar’s Well, Wimbledon Common
    • Cumbrian Well Walking
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    • Holy & Notable Wells of the Cambridge District
    • Holy Well or Holy Grail?
    • Holy Well, St Michael’s Churchyard, Longstanton, Cambridgeshire
    • Holy Wells as Ancient Monuments
    • Holy Wells in West Wales
    • Holy Wells in Yorkshire – 1
    • Holy Wells in Yorkshire – 2
    • Holy Wells in Yorkshire – 3
    • Holy Wells in Yorkshire – 4
    • Holy Wells in Yorkshire – 5
    • Holy Wells in Yorkshire – 6
    • Holy Wells in Yorkshire – 7
    • Holy Wells Today
    • Holy Wells Today
    • Holy Wells: Wormholes in Reality? – 1
    • Holy Wells: Wormholes in Reality? – 2
    • Homewell, Havant, Hampshire
    • Imbolc 1987 – Bride’s Well, Melbost Borve
    • In Search of Holy Wells
    • Legend of the Holy Well Haw, Leicestershire
    • Letters
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    • Notes & Queries
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    • Notes and Queries
    • Notes Towards a Survey of Shropshire Holy Wells – 1
    • Notes Towards a Survey of Shropshire Holy Wells – 2
    • Notes Towards a Survey of Shropshire holy wells – 3
    • Notes Towards a Survey of Shropshire Holy Wells – 4
    • Notes Towards a Survey of Shropshire Holy Wells – 5
    • On the Ancient Custom of Decorating Wells with Flowers etc
    • Other St Non Wells
    • Report on the Application for the Scheduling of St Helen’s Well, Pocklington
    • Second Report on the Application for the Scheduling of St Helen’s Well, Pocklington
    • Secret Shrines: A Curse and a Queer Feeling at St Nun’s….
    • Secret Shrines: A Ghostly Sort of Place….
    • Secret Shrines: A Tale of Reincarnation….
    • Secret Shrines: In a Dark Sea Cave….
    • Secret Shrines: Strange Happenings a Stone’s Throw from Tintagel
    • Some Ancient and Holy Wells of Devon
    • Some Holy Wells in and Around Preston
    • Some Holy Wells in Kent
    • Some Wells in the South and West – 1
    • Some Wells in the South and West – 2
    • Some Wells in the South and West – 3
    • Some Wells in the South and West – 4
    • Some Wells in the South and West – 5
    • St Anne in the Wood, Brislington
    • St Cadfan’s Well, Llangadfan, Powys
    • St Helen’s Well, Pocklington: The latest information
    • St Helen’s Well, Stainland
    • St Mungo’s Well and ‘Devil’s Stone’ Copgrove
    • St Non’s Well, Pembrokeshire
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    • The Bardsey Island Trust
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    • The Copgrove Well
    • The Holy Well at King’s Newton, Derbyshire
    • The Holy Well at St. John the Baptist Church, Holywell Cum Needingworth, Cambridgeshire
    • The Holy Wells of Glamorgan
    • The Holy Wells of Leicestershire and Rutland
    • The Holy Wells of Somerset
    • The Holy Wells of West Penwith, Cornwall
    • The Lady Well, Woolpit (a Suffolk Well)
    • The Rediscovery of a Holy Well near Malton, North Yorkshire
    • The River of Wells
    • The Strangewell, Cuddington, Buckinghamshire
    • The Watchman’s Well Kintraw
    • The Wayside Well
    • The Well and the Water Board
    • The Well of the Sacred Blood
    • The Wells of Old Warwickshire
    • The Yew Tree & Holy Well, Hope Bagot
    • UNICEF & the International Decade for Clean Drinking Water, 1981-1990
    • Well-Wishing in St Albans
    • Wishing Wells
    • Wishing Wells & Votive Offerings
  • The SOURCE The Holy Wells Journal- New Series Contents
    • Alexandra’s Well
    • Court Well, Thame, Oxfordshire
    • Cursing Not Curing: The Darker Side of Holy Wells
    • Ffynnon Santes Fair (Saint Mary’s Well)
    • Hollinshead Hall Holy Well
    • Holy Wells and Headless Saints
    • Holy Wells in Wales and Early Christian Archaeology
    • Holywell – Clwyd
    • Living with a Holy Well
    • Llandeilo Llwydiarth – The Well and the Skull
    • Pilgrims’ Ampullae and the Well of St Menas – 1
    • Rebecca’s Well on Crazies Hill
    • Robin Hood’s Well, near Helmshore
    • Seven Wiltshire Wells and their Folklore
    • Some Ancient Wells, Springs and Holy Wells of the Cotswolds
    • Some Holy Wells of South Carmarthenshire
    • Some Observations on the Earliest Spring Called After Robin Hood
    • St Arilda of Oldbury on Severn, Gloucestershire
    • St Blaise’s Well, Bromley, Kent
    • St Teilo & the Head Cult
    • Streams of Living Water
    • The Holy Well of Frome – Somerset
    • The Holywell Cure Records
    • The Ladywell at Speen
    • The Land of Holy Wells – 1
    • The Land of Holy Wells – 2
    • The Land of Holy Wells – 3
    • The Other St Winifred’s Wells
    • The Religious Symbolism of Llyn Cerrig Bach and Other Early Sacred Water Sites
    • The Search for Bride’s Well
    • The Source: Bristol Springs & Wells Group
    • The Three Wells Walk
    • The Well as Symbol – 1
    • The Wells of St Swithun
    • The Whistlebitch Well, Utkinton, Cheshire
    • Three Saints, Two Wells & a Welsh Parish
    • Well Walk in Bradford
    • Wells and Trees
    • Wells at the Bottom of the Garden
    • Will the Real St Brigid Please Stand Up?
    • Yorkshire’s Holy Wells & the Severed Head

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Armchair Holy Wells – A youtube focus part 4 Holy wells of Northern Ireland and the Republic

Jun 19

Posted by pixyledpublications

As the restrictions on travel have been largely lifted we are all free to visit holy wells again further afield so this is my last armchair visit – hopefully!

 

Posted in County Armagh, County Galway, County Tipperary, Dublin, Eire, Folklore, Northern Ireland

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