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The Biskra women were smoking hot! from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded 13 July
Keeping the Dillons in their place from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded 29 May
Elmhurst for the holidays but only in the summer from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded December 2025
Take yer pick of the Lamb or Bullock? from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded November 2025
Beware, there's lurkers in the shade! from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded May 2025
Holy well in the suburbs from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded August 2024
The Four Comely Saints from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded May 2024
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Elmhurst for the holidays but only in the summer
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- CASSIDY PHOTOGRAPHY said:
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Holy well in the suburbs
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Niall McAuley said:
It is marked on the 6" map, and marked (covered) on the 25", would be where Milbourne Avenue meets Griffith Park
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lafoc2 said:
It's called St Catherine's Well in this ihwcbc.omeka.net/items/show/541
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National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
lafoc2 Apologies. You're quite right. Amended above now.
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lafoc2 said:
Seems to be only a plaque now
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Suck Diesel said:
“In Drumcondra, St Catherine's, a well long covered in, existed on the west side of the pathway that leads from Walsh Road to the footbridge in what's now Griffith Park. Before the park was established this was part of Millbourne Avenue and the well was in the back yard of a cottage there. St Catherine's well may have been a site of veneration as far back as the 13th century.
These wells were said to have curative powers for various ailments, even promoting eternal life, or at the very least a bit of longevity. St Catherine's, we're told, was great for the auld toothache but you had to drink the water from a skull, assuming you had one handy.”
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The Four Comely Saints
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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.”
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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. ... ...
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"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"...
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beachcomber australia said:
Carol Maddock The NLI is always amazing!
What about the 'Dripping Well' ? And all those shells ? ... ...