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The Four Comely Saints

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • Suck Diesel said:
    Church of the Four Beautiful Ones

    “St Fursey, Brendan of Birr, Conal and Bearchan are the 4 saints in question

    The Church is 11-12C with modifications but their graves (and a 5th) are said to lie just outside the church behind the altar. There is also a Holy Well to which healings are attributed.”

    OS: 51 852 102 marked
  • Suck Diesel said:
    Also ‘Teampall an Ceathrar Álainn’
    The adjacent Well of the four beauties was the inspiration for Synge’s Well of the Saints
  • beachcomber australia said:
    TIMMY.
    Did ever you hear tell of a place across a bit of the sea, where there is an island, and the grave of the four beautiful saints?

    MARY DOUL.
    I’ve heard people have walked round from the west and they speaking of that.

    TIMMY.
    [impressively.] — There’s a green ferny well, I’m told, behind of that place, and if you put a drop of the water out of it on the eyes of a blind man, you’ll make him see as well as any person is walking the world.

    MARTIN DOUL.
    [with excitement.] — Is that the truth, Timmy? I’m thinking you’re telling a lie.

    TIMMY.
    [gruffly.] — That’s the truth, Martin Doul, and you may believe it now, for you’re after believing a power of things weren’t as likely at all. ... ...

    From - www.gutenberg.org/files/1241/1241-h/1241-h.htm

    "THE WELL OF THE SAINTS was first produced in the Abbey Theatre in February, 1905, by the Irish National Theatre Society."
  • Carol Maddock said:
    beachcomber australia And here's the poster for that "new play in three acts"...
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Carol Maddock The NLI is always amazing!

    What about the 'Dripping Well' ? And all those shells ? ... ...

[Dripping Well, Hastings, England] (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • excellentzebu1050 said:
    wonderful in one word
  • Pixel Wrangler said:
    In its day The Dripping Well was an extremely popular Victorian attraction. Charabancs (sightseeing wagons) would leave the monument in Hastings each day to bring visitors to this beauty spot.

    Situated at the head of a picturesque, thickly-wooded glen, the Dripping Well, overhung by a huge beach-tree, was a favourite subject for both artist and photographer.  John Logie Baird is said to have drawn inspiration here for inventing television ("seeing by wireless" as he described it). —Compiled [1] [2] [3]

     
    Dripping Well – Then and Now (100+ years later)

    The romantic Lovers' Seat was located near here but due to erosion only a stone is left in its place.

    "Dripping Well (2012)"           by Laurie Piper         "Dripping Well (c.1900)"                    by LOC
    IMG_4316       [Dripping Well, Hastings, England] (LOC)