Tobar Bhríde (Myshall)

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Tobar Bhríde (German: "Brigids Quelle", English also "St. Brigid's Well") is a holy spring of the Brigid in Myshall ( Irish Míseal ), a place in County Carlow in the Irish province of Leinster . The spring associated with the goddess Brigid of the Irish Celts is one of the 15 sacred springs of this name on the island.

Naming

The spring is named after the Gaelic goddess Brigid. “Tobar” stands for source in Irish .

description

Tobar Bhríde , is one of the 15 holy springs in the originally Gaelic spring cult of the Brigid in Ireland. The holy spring lies south of the ruins of a pre-Romanesque church, St. Finian's, in a cemetery in the center of Myshall on Church Road .

In Irish mythology, Brigid (New Irish Bríd , Brigit or Brighid ; the "sublime"), the daughter of Dagda , came from Túatha Dé Danann and was the wife of Fomori Bress (also Bres). She had two sisters, also called Bhríde, and together with her sisters probably formed a Celtic trinity of goddesses ( matrons ). As St. Brigida (also St. Brigid) of the Irish, she appears in a Christianized form.

Sacred springs were places of pilgrimage for the Celts . They soaked a scrap of cloth (Scottish clootie ) in the spring water, washed their wound and tied the scrap in a hawthorn . This spring and tree cult on the Clootie Wells was continued by the Christianized Irish in the form of the veneration of St. Brigid.

The nearby church ruin is said to be the successor to a founding of St. Finnian , one of the most important saints of the Iroschottischen Church , who is believed to have been born in Myshall in the year 470 AD. In the cemetery there is also a large porthole with two cavities.

Remarks

  1. ↑ description and image of the Church of St. Finian on the website of the place (English)
  2. ^ Church and porthole on megalithicireland.com
  3. ↑ Tobar Bhride on the website of the place (English)

literature

  • Walter L. Brenneman, Mary G. Brenneman: Crossing the circle at the holy wells of Ireland . University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, VI 1995, ISBN 0-8139-1548-1 .
  • Elizabeth Healy: In search of Ireland's holy wells . Wolfhound Press, Dublin 2001, ISBN 0-86327-865-5 .
  • Patrick Logan: The holy wells of Ireland . Smythe Books, Gerrards Cross 1992, ISBN 0-86140-046-1 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 41 ′ 7 ″  N , 6 ° 46 ′ 49 ″  W.