St Berrihert's Wellie

Just back from an amazing few days in County Carlow. The journey seemed to involve going through a huge amount of countries: Cork, Tipperary, LImerick, Kilkenny ,Waterford and possibly even Wexford!
We were staying with our friends who had hired an airbnb in Ballymurphy. They were attending the Festival of Writing and Ideas and we had gone to do a spot of exploring. The sun blazed throughout - Himself managed a huge walk and I bagged 8 wells, several abbeys, one or two high crosses, a motte and several punnets of Wexford strawberries - just ready and irresistible! 

It took us ages to get home as we were severely distracted. First by an amazing collegiate church and custodian who knew absolutely everything and was determined to tell us every bit of it; and then by two astonishing old monastic sites hidden in a leafy glen. This is St Berrihert's Kyle - once a church, then a burial spot for the unbaptised and now a secretive and magical place accessed across a boardwalk through damp, fields, waist high in yellow flags. The well was enormous and bubbling ferociously, the pond weed underneath a luminous green.  The clootie tree had a fine assemblage of offerings though it is the first time I've seen a wellie!

Back blips:
A wander around Borris
St Colmcille himself