Stalactites & Stalagmites!!

These are found in caves or caverns - but here are some beautiful stalagtites out in the open air! The stalagmites were also there, but not properly formed yet

Maybe they're called something else when they aren't in caves or caverns?

These are in the window of an old church, initially, I thought someone had lit a candle in the window because that's what the stalagmites to be looked like, just the same as a melted candle, only they were cold and hard to touch - like rock. That's when I looked up and saw the stalactites

St. Fintan's Holy Well, Cromogue, Co. Laois

Still in Co. Laois and this time I did find a Holy Well - St. Fintan's Well, close to Cromogue in Laois and it has to be one of the best maintained Holy Wells I've ever seen. It's off a little road off another litte road - the road it is on is one of those with the grass growing in the middle, hedges growing well on either side and then all of a sudden you come to this hedge which is trimmed to either side of a little green and white gate.

More little hedges inside the gate, you can just see them in this photo behind the statues at the well.

It's really pretty and neat and so hidden away. Absolutely well worth a visit just to see it. The water in the well itself is probably not more than a foot deep and is crystal clear.

Cromogue would be between Shanahoe and Raheen and not even that far from Abbeyleix