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Just outside the village across the fields lies Doon Peter Well, reputed to be one of the oldest wells in Ireland. On the left is the entrance to it; on the right are the cups used for drinking and the well itself |
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| Each year on St. John's eve, just after the summer solstice, pilgrims flock to the well to do the "rounds". This takes the form of making a cross on the stones surrounding the well at the same time saying a decade of the Rosary. |
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Pictures to the left show a stone used in the rounds . Several people have chosen to be buried within the well area. In Famine times bodies were buried at the northside of the confines |
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Sign at the start of the Famine Walk. The Raven hovering seeking who it will afflict |
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This is Norma giving o a guided tour of the well and Famine Road
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"The people wailed, the spuds they failed, as blight swept o'er the land, While misery held dismal sway, and gloom the upper hand.... So they introduced a project then, an ambitious one they said.. 'Twould give the people work to do,and perhaps a little bread.. But then before they could commence, for they had vision too, They'd first and foremost go to Doon, for they had work to do, So they dug a grave both wide and deep, and deep it had to be. For a dreadful situation begged a dreadful remedy...." ("On the Banks of the Bride" - Vincent Murphy)
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