Tag: folklore

• From saint to wish: the holy and wishing wells of Britain and Ireland

  

  I mapped 3,440 holy wells in Britain and Ireland, read the saints and languages in their names, and counted the cures, rags and coins recorded at Irish wells. Mary and Patrick tie for first place, and the wishing well’s coin was already there at the saint’s well.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  Ireland, maps, data visualisation, holy wells, wishing wells, folklore, saints, place names