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CORMAC MACCONNELL

Positive news on the Irish job front: The wise man who creates good

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Cormac MacConnell

Published Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 9:22 AM
Updated Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 9:25 AM

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Cormac MacConnell
Cormac MacConnell

Wise people who propose to build a new country house in the Clare region often send for Councilor P.J. Kelly to come and have a look at their site before they lay one block.

The lively and likeable councilor is a man of many parts, and dowsing or divining with rods and wires is just one of his arts. He has a national reputation in that field. It is well deserved.

I know the man and like him a lot. He lives in Lissycasey and that village, which is the village of the famed Fanny O'Dea's pub, is, incidentally, one of the longest villages in Ireland from end to end. It seems to go on forever.

It's maybe a bit ironic that the Fianna Fail councilor, when he sits in the council chamber, is so well versed in the small print of our convoluted planning processes in relation to housing that there are few experts or engineers with more knowledge. The fact he is also witty and sharp of tongue means that council debates in which he features get a lot of coverage in the local media.  

I think he was formerly a schoolteacher. He is a "horsie man" with a lot of equine knowledge and a local politician to his fingertips. You could write a book about P.J. Kelly, but here we will stick to his dowsing expertise. 

The men who send for him to survey their new house sites, for example, would not proceed with the work if P.J. advised against it. He's not just a diviner who can discover a spring well for you. The skills are far deeper than that.

He can discover the existence of leylines of underground energies over which it may not be healthy to live. He can track and trace these leylines with great accuracy, and accordingly advise his client exactly where on the site the house should be sited.

He can even go into existing homes, ascertain if there is a leyline underneath any part of the building and, if there is, advise on remedies such as moving a bedroom from one area to another.

As an aside, I can remember interviewing a similar talented dowser in County Galway many years ago. He was a parish priest in the Tynagh region, greatly loved by his people.

He could find drowned people through the use of a pendulum, but he also surveyed homes of his parishioners, especially if there was ill-health constantly under the roof, particularly depression.

Again bedrooms were moved to other parts of the building on his advice, and I also recall him telling me that he often told people to paint the undersides of beds, tables, chairs and other furniture with thick coats of red oxide paint. It seems this dissipated adverse energies and offered protection.

In modern Ireland we have the radon surveys and radon protection systems against underground radiation, and a wide awareness of the risk. But Father Hawkins was away ahead of his time.

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