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  1. Happy Monday, everyone 😊

    I posted a new piece on my #blog ... about encounters with the local wildlife (a bit of a change from my usual stuff about #StandingStones and #HolyWells 😁)

    It starts like this ...

    "I don't really accept that one magpie foretells sorrow, but I'll happily anticipate joy when I see two."

    Big thanks to @Devonkiwi and @Glamazon for the photos 💗

    #nature #wildlife #spiritanimals #NomadicHearts

    2ruth.blog/2026/07/12/wild-mee

  2. We did find St Edith's Well in the end ...and I haven't seen one quite like this before ... but, believe me, we had to battle through some foliage and then there was an iron grate in front of it ... so I couldn't strip off and immerse myself in the water 🤪

    #holywells #spring #ancientsites #sacredsites

  3. I swear I had planned the next video to be a proper mapping video, but here we go again with #Wikidata. The project did involve mapping on #OpenStreetMap, though. And just in time for #Bealtaine. youtu.be/OV4aL2PdjIc?is=XGovVV
    #Holywells #IrishSaints #folklore

  4. Working on adding holy wells and holy well sites to #wikidata to be able to generate a map of Ireland with only the wells named after female saints. Very slow going, but patterns seem to emerge. Counties Kilkenny, Laois and Carlow finished, working on Wexford now. Look at that diversity where the Normans landed first! Brown is St Catherine, purple St Anne, red St Brigid, turquoise St Margaret, golden St Helen (Helena Augusta), dark blue Mary (pure coincidence). #opendata #HolyWells

  5. #998 Cheryl Straffon (ed) - Meyn Mamvro: Ancient Stones and Sacred Sites in Cornwall - No 37, Autumn 1998. Meyn Mamvro, St Just.

    #CherylStraffon #MeynMamvro #EarthMysteries #Archaeology #Cornwall #Kernow #HolyWells #Rame #BookOfTheDay

  6. #929 Cheryl Straffon (ed) - Meyn Mamvro: Ancient Stones and Sacred Sites in Cornwall - No 35, Winter/Spring 1998. Meyn Mamvro, St Just.

    #CherylStraffon #MeynMamvro #EarthMysteries #Archaeology #Cornwall #Kernow #HolyWells #BookOfTheDay

  7. Dalkey Island in Dublin, Ireland

    A tiny island off the coast of Dublin was once a pilgrimage site for the sick and the suffering.#vikings #holywells #islands #section-Atlas
    Dalkey Island

  8. #863 Cheryl Straffon (ed) - Meyn Mamvro: Ancient Stones and Sacred Sites in Cornwall - No 33, Spring/Summer 1997. Meyn Mamvro, St Just. #CherylStraffon #MeynMamvro #EarthMysteries #Archaeology #Cornwall #Kernow #HolyWells #BookOfTheDay

  9. 📜 Exciting new guest blog post! Community member Anne-Karoline shares her journey using #Wikidata for an oral history project in #Kilkenny. Discover how she’s documenting #HolyWells and local history for open access.📖Read now: tinyurl.com/mr2vnvuk

    #OralHistory #opendata #ecumenicalmatter

    Image: Cabaal at the English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

  10. #698 Cheryl Straffon (ed) - Meyn Mamvro: Ancient Stones and Sacred Sites in Cornwall, No 28, Summer/Autumn 1995. Meyn Mamvro, St Just. #CherylStraffon #MeynMamvro #EarthMysteries #Archaeology #Cornwall #Kernow #Dolmens #Scilly #HolyWells #BookOfTheDay

  11. #663 Cheryl Straffon (ed) - Meyn Mamvro: Ancient Stones and Sacred Sites in Cornwall, No 27, Summer 1995. Meyn Mamvro, St Just. #CherylStraffon #MeynMamvro #EarthMysteries #Archaeology #Cornwall #Kernow #Scilly #HolyWells #BookOfTheDay

  12. I've started writing Wikipedia articles about some holy wells. Pretty happy about this one which is well represented in the Schools' Collection: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady%27s
    I just need to tidy the references a bit, bc some are duplicates.
    #wikipedia #folklore #IrishFolklore #CountyKilkenny #holywells

  13. St Mary's and All Saints Church & Holy Well in Dunsfold, England

    An ancient yew tree and holy well nestle beside a remarkable 13th-century church.#water #wells #religion #sacredspaces #trees #medieval #churches #paganism #celtic #holywells #section-Atlas
    St Mary's and All Saints Church & Holy Well

  14. #463 Cheryl Straffon (ed) - Meyn Mamvro: Ancient Stones and Sacred Sites in Cornwall, No 21, Summer 1993. Meyn Mamvro, St Just. #CherylStraffon #MeynMamvro #EarthMysteries #Archaeology #Cornwall #Kernow #HolyWells #BookOfTheDay

  15. #HolyWells #Cork #Ireland #Folklore #Archaeology
    My wife's book (which I designed) 'Holy Wells of County Cork' has been getting some nice reviews which I have posted to our website. The first print run of 500 copies has sold out in just a few weeks and we are now waiting for a reprint to arrive.
    wildwayspress.com/reviews/