Pilgrimage - Stories From a Living Graveyard (Part 3)
Irish History Podcast
Fin Dwyer
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2020
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
St Aidan's well is located in the environs Preban graveyard. Rituals have been performed at this holy well for centuries possibly even longer. Although these traditions are now dying out, in this episode we hear the words of the late Maura Carty who can remember pilgrims coming to the well. We also interview Dr Louise Nugent an expert on pilgrimmage and holy sites to hear more about this important archaeological site that links the present community around Preban to their distant ancestors
Thanks to Dr Louise Nugent for her time.
This episode is the third of seven in 'Stories from a Living Graveyard’. The series will be released daily as part of Heritage Week 2020.
Sound by Jason Looney
Special thanks to Yvonne Whitty, the Heritage office of Wicklow County Coucil & Preban Graveyard Committee.
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| 1:04.5 | Full details can be found online. There's a holy well that's located kind of 120 meters west of the graveyard and this is |
| 1:16.9 | dedicated to St. Dayton. People would visit the holy well on the 31st of January and |
| 1:22.2 | they tie rags to the tree and leave their sticks there and then as the |
| 1:26.7 | disease rotted away that the rags would rot away also. Hello and |
| 1:35.0 | I'm welcome to Stories from a Living graveyard, a podcast series created by myself, Finn Duwire, |
| 1:38.0 | and Damien Shields, the host of the Forgotten Irish Podcast. |
| 1:42.0 | This series looks at stories from Prebben Cemetery in |
| 1:45.1 | County Wicklow. In the last episode we heard about the ancient history of Prebben and |
| 1:49.4 | in this show we look at some incredible traditions that have endured over the centuries. |
| 1:54.8 | As Yvonne Wittie explained at the beginning, people have been visiting a holy well at Previn |
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