Tobar Mhuire – #ThursdayDoors

Posted on January 25, 2024 by Gloria

An open door to a holy well, Tobar Mhuire – Saint Mary’s Well. So it’s not actually a door, but a doorway. I think it still counts for #ThursdayDoors and Dan won’t slap my wrists! (Leave me alone. It’s only January and I’m still waking up to the realisation that it’s 2024.)

We visit this well because it’s a lovely country walk and it’s an interesting place to be.

I wrote a post all about Tobar Mhuire during my #100daysofolddays project. If you’d like to read more about this holy well, read my post HERE.

Thursday Doors is a weekly challenge for people who love doors and architecture to come together to admire and share their favourite door photos, drawings, or other images or stories from around the world. If you’d like to join in and create your own Thursday Doors post each (or any) week, visit nofacilities.com for more information.

St Patrick’s Church – #ThursdayDoors

Posted on September 14, 2023 by Gloria

A random walkabout in Newport Co Mayo led me to this fine building, St Patrick’s Church.

It was built in 1914-8 and opened in 1918.

There’s nothing quite like the smell inside a church; old, smoky, woody, sweet. The scent in St Patrick’s seems more raw than the usual churchy smells. There’s no fresh paint or furniture polish masking the alluring scent of old wood and stale Myrrh and frankincense.

Do smells echo in high-ceilinged churches? I feel like they do.

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Coffee or Tea? #photochallenge

Posted on July 10, 2023 by Gloria

This photo is for Maria Antonio’s Weekly Photo Challenge #2023picoftheweek

This antique teaset is on display in Turlough Park House in The Country Life National Museum of Ireland in Castlebar, Co Mayo.

The Ruins of Rosserk Friary #100DaysOfOldDays

Posted on May 30, 2022 by Gloria

Day 90 #100DaysOfOldDays

Today’s post is linked to Marsha Ingrao’s PPAC #48

Rosserk friary was founded around 1460 by a member of the Joyce family for the friars of the Third Order of St Francis.

The Third Order of the Society of St. Francis is an Anglican/Episcopal religious order for people of all kinds—single and in committed relationships, lay and ordained—who live by Franciscan principles “in the world.”

This late Irish Gothic style building is situated on the banks of the River Moy – on the north side of Ballina and on the west side of Killala Bay. It is one of the finest reserved ruins in Co Mayo and one of the finest preserved Franciscan Friary ruins in Ireland.