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Hello Philip: I am a librarian in California who is in love with your country. I have only been in Ireland once, in 1994, for a 5 week stay. I had an opportunity, at that time, to visit numerous holy wells, high crosses, and prehistoric monuments and I hope to come back this summer. I am very interested in seeing wells that might still be visited; like Mt. Melleray, St. Gobnet, St. Bridget in Liscannor, St. Bridget near Dundulk, etc. Can you suggest some sites or am I imposing on you? Would love to correspond with someone in the Emerald Isle. My interest in traveling in Ireland is to be off the tourist path, whenever that is possible. Where are you located? Best wishes, Mary >From: "Philip David" <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: [log in to unmask] >To: <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: Introduction - and clooties >Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 23:45:30 +0100 > >Pete, > At last. Someone interested in Irish wells! The destruction of >archaeological sites here is at an all time high despite a well funded >heritage service (division of the Dept.of environment) and a heritage >council, but springs and holy wells? Forget it! I live near one of the >most important sites in Ireland and have been trying to get poeple >interested in restoring St. Feichin's holy well (a major tourist >attraction) in Fobhair (Eng. Fore: the town of springs) to no avail. A few >years ago, it was capped by the county council who built a pseudo replica >ten feet away. All the other wells that I've investigated are totally >neglected, destroyed, polluted. No-one cares. The Celtic tiger rules! >And all development is short sighted big money grab, anti-enviromental, >greedy destruction. Who needs pure water when our economy is dependent on >heavily flouridated county water schemes and inadequate sewage treatment? > If you are intersted, Pete, I could steer you towards many sites that >would make an excellant inventory of "Ugly Ireland" photographs! Most of >them at, or near to, important sites like Tara. > Cheers, > Phil David, in the silver and brown fields of the heart of Ireland. > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> >Date: Monday, August 14, 2000 8:38 PM >Subject: Introduction - and clooties > > > >To all, > > > >I have been photographing hundreds of early sites in Ireland, for several > >years now. Until a year ago, I hadn't been paying much attention to Holy > >Wells, although hundreds of them are marked on the Discovery Series maps. > >Last September, I went to see St. Kieran's bush, a few miles SE of Birr. > >With all of the clooties, it was a sight ot behold. You should see how >it > >looks in infrared ! > > > >Since then, I have been accumulating a list of other sites where >clooties, or > >similar offerings might be found. Other than the Shell Guide to Ireland, >my > >only sources have been the downloaded Hardy book, Logan's Holy Wells of > >Ireland, and the Crossing the Circle book by the Brennemans. The latter >book > >gives quite a few clootie sites, but I am interested in more ...... so I >went > >to your archives. I was surprised to find no mention in the archives of > >clooties at all. Perhaps it is a non-PC word. As one of the most > >interesting and striking characteristics of Irish Holy Wells, I was >certainly > >surprised to see the subject ignored. Any advice? I'm heading back to > >Ireland again this September, for another 3 weeks of photographing - and >I'd > >certainly like to put more locations on my itinerary. > > > >Pete Schermerhorn, in the glorious Berkshire hills of western >Massachusetts > > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%