In a depraved attack in the early hours of Sunday morning, vandals sprayed red paint over every religious statue at The Holy Well, as well as daubing graffiti on the famed Mass Rock, the ancient altar ...

IN olden times, pure and reliable water was the staff of life – not that over-rated everyday stuff, bread. The rare places where safe and fresh water sprang miraculously from the ground were known for ...

WEXFORD COUNTY COUNCIL has moved to try and allay fears amongst locals in Terrerath over the possibility of contamination to St. Brigid's Holy Well following the recent installation of an outfall ...

Holy water from a small well in Co Clare was flown across the Atlantic in the cockpit of an Aer Lingus flight and delivered to a sick child in Philadelphia. The Irish Examiner reports that the water, ...

Editor's note: In May 2022 our sister publication, Ireland of the Welcomes, celebrated its 70th anniversary. To mark the occasion, we dipped into our decades of archives and found incredible articles ...

During the Covid-19 pandemic, St Finian’s holy well on the Iveragh peninsula in Co Kerry became a place of pilgrimage for many people. The sixth-century saint, after whom the well was named, had a ...