The Well
(An Tobar)

Directed by Anna Rackard and Adrian Mccarthy.
Ireland, 2005, color, 52 min.

This fascinating documentary offers a tantalizing glimpse into a relatively unexplored area of Irish cultural heritage—the sacred well. Visiting several of the country's most sacred well sites on their special days of devotion, documentarians Anna Rackard and Adrian McCarthy reveal the continued importance of Christian and pre-Christian traditions in contemporary Ireland as well as many of the peculiar legends that persist to this day.

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