Holy well, Mountshannon, Co. Clare
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Holy Sites & Wells
Near the village of Mountshannon on the western shore of Lough Derg in County Clare, there is a holy well that has yet to yield much of its story to the written record.
Holy wells are among the most quietly persistent features of the Irish landscape, places where pre-Christian veneration of water sources blended over centuries with Catholic devotion, often becoming sites of pattern days, small pilgrimages held on a patron saint's feast day, where people would pray, drink the water, and sometimes tie cloth offerings to nearby bushes or trees. That such a well exists here, in a part of Clare with deep layers of early medieval settlement, is not surprising; what is notable is how little documented detail has so far surfaced about it.
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Mountshannon, Co. Clare
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