Sacred Ireland by Jon Michael Riley Ireland1 | Page 28

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St. Kieran’s Well near Killybegs, County Donegal. This folk-art
figure had been recently painted.

Tobar na Molt /Well of the Wethers, near Ardfert, County Kerry.
St. Brendan-the-Navigator was baptised here in 484 AD. This
cerebral place is ringed by trees and beyond, pasture land.

Foohah Well on the Clare coast, south of Kilkee. About the size
of a phone booth, Foohah stands in a remarkable, isolated setting
devoid of trees and within a stone’s throw of dramatic sea cliffs.

The popular pilgrimage site of St. Gobnait’s Shrine in County
Cork. Patron saint of bees, St. Gobnait is also associated with
caring for the sick and establishing a religious community for
women, symbolized by white deer.

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