the well at Carn

As the wheel turns toward St. Brigid’s Day and the ancient festival of Imbolc, I mark the traditional arrival of spring with a visit to a local holy well. Join me as we explore the intersection of landscape, ritual, and history. A special note of thanks to Jim O'Connor for his knowledge and poetry reading.

Acknowledgements

• Poetry remains the copyright of Jim O’Connor 
• Cameron Roo - music
• John O’Donovan’s 1838 Ordnance Survey Letters of County Mayo, edited by Rev. Michael O’Flanagan (1927) Vol 2 page 456.

• Celeste Ray, Sewanee, The University of the South https://new.sewanee.edu/our-faculty-staff/celeste-ray/ 

• Constance Jones; James D. Ryan (2006). Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Infobase Publishing. p. 472.

• https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/

• Voices from festival in Mali celebrating goddess Nyale

• Tribal deer dance North America 

• Church bells - Ammassalik, Greenland