Spring Water Oval Studs Aonbhar It also provided acorn flour

It also provided acorn flour

Irish Whispers

By sucking his thumb he inadvertently ate from the salmon of knowledge “bradán feasa” which fed from the sacred pool surrounded by nine hazels

It involved great celebration and a time of plenty

Spring Water Oval Studs Aonbhar It also provided acorn flourTobar is the Irish word for Well, Spring or Source. Many towns get their names from wells and springs with Tipperary (Tiobraid rann source of the River Ar) being one example. Wells are significant in Irish mythology being regarded as portals to the Celtic otherworld, which was believed to exist on a parallel plane to our own. It was believed you could enter this realm through water be it through the sea, lakes springs and wells. Boann, the Irish cow