St Brigid's Well

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St Brigid's Well are holy wells (sacred wells) connected with St. Bridgit of Kildare, a 5th-century Irish saint from Kildare in Ireland, who is one of the patron saints of Ireland, and also a figure in Irish folklore. The are popular pilgrimage places, and as per a 19th-century survey, there are at least fifteen such wells across Ireland, notably in Liscannor, in County Clare and Buttevant, County Cork in Ireland.

Brigid was the goddess of the Sacred Flame of Kildare and the patron goddess of the Druids. She was the goddess of all things perceived to be of relatively high dimensions such as high-rising flames, highlands, hill-forts and upland areas; and of activities and states conceived as psychologically elevated, such as wisdom, excellence, perfection, high intelligence, poetic eloquence, craftsmanship, healing ability, druidic knowledge and skill in warfare. She seems to have been the Celtic equivalent of the Roman Minerva and the Greek Athena, goddesses with very similar functions and apparently embodying the same concept of 'elevated state', whether physical or psychological.

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