In March, the above exhibition on Pilgrimage in Ireland was on display in the City Library. The exhibition was staged by Richard Scriven who recently gave a talk as part of the Bealtaine Festival. In that excellent talk, he had slides of St. John’s Well in Killone, outside Ennis and it reminded me of these photographs which I took in April. The storms had not been overly kind to the statue of St. John. Shortly after leaving, I was speaking with a local resident in Newhall who said that the tree was so tall that it stretched further than the statue of Mary and the new altar; and, that the branches were between these which were both lucky to survive. It reminded me of the little statue in a private garden outside Leap in West Cork that survived a large falling tree that did major damage to the dwelling. |
The father was somewhat puzzled when the photographs were downloaded and the one with closed eyes that he was sure was there, was not.