irisharchaeology:

This ancient ash tree marks the spot of St Beinean’s holy well in Co Galway. 

Surrounded by a low stone wall & a circle of hawthorn trees, the well was once an important pilgrimage site that was visited on ‘Domhnach Chroim Dubh’. This is the last Sunday in July a date that roughly corresponds with the old Irish festival of Lughnasadh (named after the god Lugh). However, in the early 19th century the local priest, a Reverend Joyce, stopped all visits to the site as he believed it was ‘a well of Druidical Sanctity’ (source the Ordnance Survey letters)

filmgifs:

You must know… surely, you must know it was all for you. You are too generous to trifle with me. I believe you spoke with my aunt last night, and it has taught me to hope as I’d scarcely allowed myself before. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes have not changed, but one word from you will silence me forever. If, however, your feelings have changed, I will have to tell you: you have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on.
Matthew Macfadyen as Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy in Pride & Prejudice (2005)

magistera:

Dearest Cecilia, the story can resume. The one I had been planning on that evening walk. I can become again the man who once crossed the surrey park at dusk, in my best suit, swaggering on the promise of life. The man who, with the clarity of passion, made love to you in the library. The story can resume. I will return. Find you, love you, marry you and live without shame.