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Trinity Well

Holy well

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Trinity Well in County Limerick throws cold water through a rock gap, still wearing rough stone slabs like a forgotten collar. Crowds once surged there before Trinity Sunday, their footsteps shaking the ground while smaller numbers still kneel at its edge. The well does not need belief to flow, yet it seems to wait for the kindness of being witnessed.
Ó Danachair (1955, 210) recorded the following details about Trinity Well; ‘A strong spring issuing from the rock, roughly covered with slabs of stone. Devotions are still made occasionally; formerly large crowds came on the Saturday before Trinity Sunday'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 21 May 2019
Trinity Well is associated with Christian devotion, likely linked to the veneration of the Holy Trinity, though no specific saint is mentioned in historical records. The site was once a significant place of pilgrimage, attracting large crowds for healing or spiritual purposes, though such devotions are now less frequent.

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