Holy Well
Louth
Faughart Upper Holy Well
Marked on the 1938-9 ‘OS 6-inch’ map as ‘St Brigid’s Well’. Covered with a corbelled canopy of stone that was constructed between 1900 and 1924; before this it had a clay canopy (CLAJ 1966, 115). Partial excavations by L. Connor revealed a deep cutting a
Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well
Location Details
Coordinates:
Lat: 54.051684329
Lng: -6.384026582
Lat: 54.051684329
Lng: -6.384026582
Site Type
- Holy Well
Historical Periods
- 10th Century
- 19th Century
- 20th Century
- 4th Century
Associated Saints
- St Brigid
Location Map
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