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An example of a holy well
There was a big turnout at St Fiacre’s Well in Kilferagh, Sheastown on Sunday afternoon for the annual mass to commemorate St Fiacre, who founded a monastery at the site back in the Sixth Century.
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St Fiacre, who is recognised as the patron saint of gardeners and taxi drivers, later sailed to Meaux in France, later to be renamed Saint-Fiacre, where he established a church and a hospice for travellers. In 1999, to acknowledge his love of flowers and herbs, a garden was set up in the National Stud in Kildare.
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