Your ears should have been burning yesterday, Jeremy. I was showing your English gazetteer to a group of people meeting at Brecon to review a pilot study of wells in the county organised by Keep Wales Tidy, and saying it was - with James's book - absolutely key reading.
In fact I'm going to Waterford with the KWT project officer. We're both down to give a paper. Very interesting international spread.
All the best
Graham
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Subject: Irish Conference, 26-7 June 12017
Dear All,
There’s a conference coming up on holy wells in Ireland, to be held in Co. Waterford (see https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/151661/sacred-springs-and-holy-wells-two-day-workshop-waterford-ireland for announcement, though the CFP is now closed) They say:
Sacred springs and holy wells are pan-human and a rising subject of scholarly inquiry internationally. This workshop will examine how such sites are understood through archaeology, anthropology, folklore, geography, history and related fields and consider new interdisciplinary directions for future research.
Paper proposals that consider the following are especially invited:
✤ saint cults and holy wells
✤ archaeological and hydrogeological characteristics of wells
✤ holy wells as therapeutic landscapes
✤ holy well pilgrimage and folk liturgies
✤ medical humanities and the folklore of healing wells
Is anyone going?
Jeremy Harte
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