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From Paul Kingsnorth's beautiful Substack: The Abbey Of Misrule he finds 50 holy wells. This one is The Pinnacle Well, Gleninagh, County Clare.
“There is a small nook built into the inside wall, apparently once used to leave offerings, but it was empty when I visited. This doesn’t appear to be an ‘active’ holy well, and there is no record of its pattern day, if it ever had one. In fact, some people argue that it was never ‘holy’ at all, but merely a water source, though records from the 1840s claim that ‘the neighboring peasantry call it a Blessed Well.’
Who blessed it is another matter. In Irish it’s called ‘Cornan’s well’: Cornan was a very obscure early Irish saint about whom nothing is known but his name. It could also be a misspelling of the more famous name Cronan: there were at least two saints with that moniker. Alternatively, it could mean something else entirely. Pioneering travel writer Thomas Cooke wrote in the 1840s, before Blood’s spires were built over it, that ‘This well is called Tubbercornane, probably from the Irish Tobar, a spring, and Corna, a drinking cup’.”
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