Two Kilkenny pictures win in WikiLovesFolklore photo competition

Picture Credit: A.-K. D., CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

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Two photographs of St Nicholas’ Well in Killamery have been awarded 1st and 3rd place in this year’s WikiLovesFolklore photo competition.

WikiLovesFolklore is an initiative by Wikimedia Commons and is held annually to entice people to upload media of folkloristic content.

This year's first place is a photograph (above) of St Nicholas' Well in Killamery, an early monastic site with an impressive high cross, bullaun stones, medieval grave slabs and the holy well.

The third place was awarded to another photograph (below) of St Nicholas' Holy Well, but with the former Protestant Church of St Nicholas in the background.

Picture Credit: A.-K. D., CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Second place went to a photograph of spectators of the St Patrick's Parade in Cork.

Wikimedia Commons is a sister project of popular online resource Wikipedia and is a crowdsourced media repository which can be used by people in search of free photographs.

Attribution may be required for these photos depending on the copyright license of the individual image or other media.

The next photo competition hosted by Wikimedia is WikiLovesEarth, which is running from now until July 31, 2024.