Ancient And Holy Wells Of Dublin
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Ancient and Holy Wells of Dublin
Author | : Gary Branigan |
Publsiher | : Thp Ireland |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1845887530 |
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Holy Wells began life as sacred pagan sites, and were gradually assimilated into the early Celtic Christian in an effort to convert the native masses. Many have seen the rise and fall of Catholicism and some now see pagan visitations once again. There are approximately 100 surviving Ancient & Holy Wells in County Dublin, including natural springs, elaborate stone monuments, sea caves, and hidden sites in tunnels under the Dublin streets. This book will document the remaining Wells in the landscape, with many beautiful photographs of each and its surroundings, detail brief history and legends attached, and give precise locations and directions, allowing people to start visiting these ancient places of both religious and archaeological interest again.
Holy Wells of Ireland
Author | : Celeste Ray,Finbar McCormick |
Publsiher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780253066695 |
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The storied landscapes of Ireland are dotted with holy wells--hallowed springs, pools, ponds, and lakes credited with curative powers and often associated with Catholic and indigenous saints. While many of these sites have been recently lost to development, others are visited daily for devotions and remain the focus of annual community gatherings. Encouraging both their use and protection, Holy Wells of Ireland delves into these irreplaceable resources of spiritual, archaeological, and historical significance. Reserves of localized spiritual practices, holy wells are also ecosystems in themselves and provide habitats for rare and culturally meaningful flora and fauna. The shift toward a "post-Catholic" Ireland has prompted renewed interest in holy wells as popular domains with organic faith traditions. Of the roughly 3,000 holy wells documented across Ireland, some attract international pilgrims and others are stewarded by a single family. Featuring 140 color images, this remarkable volume shares the transdisciplinary work of contributors who study these wells through the overlapping lenses of anthropology, archaeology, art history, biomedicine, folklore, geography, history, and hydrology. Braiding community perspectives with those of scholars across academia, Holy Wells of Ireland considers Irish holy wells as a resilient feature of ever-evolving Irish Christianity, as inspiration to other faith traditions, as places of pilgrimage and healing, and as threatened biocultural resources.
Ancient and Holy Wells of Cornwall
Author | : Mabel Quiller-Couch,Lilian M. Quiller-Couch |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : Cornwall (England : County) |
ISBN | : IND:39000005767111 |
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The Origins of Ireland s Holy Wells
Author | : Celeste Ray |
Publsiher | : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2014-01-19 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781784910457 |
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This book re-assesses archaeological research into holy well sites in Ireland and the evidence for votive deposition at watery sites throughout northwest European prehistory.
The Holy Wells of Ireland
Author | : Patrick Logan |
Publsiher | : Colin Smythe |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UOM:39015007008587 |
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Ireland s Forgotten Past A History of the Overlooked and Disremembered
Author | : Turtle Bunbury |
Publsiher | : Thames & Hudson |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2020-03-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780500775400 |
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This volume delves into Ireland’s forgotten history bringing to light some of the most colorful characters and intriguing episodes of the country’s long history. Ireland is approximately the size of the state of Indiana, yet this small country boasts an extensive, rich, and fascinating history. Ireland’s Forgotten Past is an alternative history that covers 13,000 years in 36 stories that are often left out of history books. Among the characters in these absorbing accounts are a pair of ill- fated prehistoric chieftains, a psychopathic Viking, a gallant Norman knight, a dazzling English traitor, an ingenious tailor, an outstanding war-horse, a brothel queen, an insanely prolific sculptor, and a randy prince. This volume offers a succinct account of the Stone Age and Bronze Age, as well as insights into the Bell-Beakers, the Romans, and the Knights Templar. Historian Turtle Bunbury writes a gently off-beat take on monumental events like the Wars of the Roses, the Tudor Conquest and the Battle of the Boyne, as well as the Home Rule campaign and the Great War. Ireland’s Forgotten Past adds color to the existing histories of the country by focusing on the unique characters and intriguing events. This volume will delight anyone interested in the rich untold history of Ireland.
Sacred Waters
Author | : Celeste Ray |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 2020-02-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781000025088 |
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Describing sacred waters and their associated traditions in over thirty countries and across multiple time periods, this book identifies patterns in panhuman hydrolatry. Supplying life’s most basic daily need, freshwater sources were likely the earliest sacred sites, and the first protected and contested resource. Guarded by taboos, rites and supermundane forces, freshwater sources have also been considered thresholds to otherworlds. Often associated also with venerated stones, trees and healing flora, sacred water sources are sites of biocultural diversity. Addressing themes that will shape future water research, this volume examines cultural perceptions of water’s sacrality that can be employed to foster resilient human–environmental relationships in the growing water crises of the twenty-first century. The work combines perspectives from anthropology, archaeology, classics, folklore, geography, geology, history, literature and religious studies.
The Living Stream
Author | : James Rattue |
Publsiher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 085115848X |
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This is the first general history of wells and their religious and cultural associations. The author begins in ancient times, exploring the archetypal motifs present in the cult of water. He then goes on to trace the development of holy wells in England.