Christian Sites

High Cross located in Meath.

The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for resear Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Situated on a marked S-facing slope in rocky terrain. Natural spring with no associated features still regarded locally as a holy well. The name means ‘well of the rocks’ (tobar na carraige) (Price 1949, 173). The above description is derived from the p Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Situated immediately E of a kink in a stream, in poorly drained pasture. Indicated on the 1927 OS 6-inch map as ‘Kenny’s Well’. Described by Ó Danachair (1955) as ‘a clear spring well about three feet in diameter…the water cured many ailments. Locally Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Knights Hospitaller founded before 1212; dissolution unknown

The OS Letters (1839) mention, ‘a well called Nicholas’s Well lies a little to the west of it [‘it’ being the church (KK022-015001-) and graveyard (KK022-015002-) at Kilballykeefe]’ (O’Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 237 (81)). The church is also desc Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

On the south bank of river which has been deepened and a linear park developed either side of it. There is no trace of the well or any local tradition except for the name on the road ‘St Donaghy’s road’. It was formerly visible as a pool marked by an ash Monument Type: Ritual site […]

A former ‘rag well’, now dried up and disused. Recorded in 1936 as “St. Barron’s Holy Well at Ballyshannon is situate near the railway some short distance from the old chapel and ruins of St. Barron’s Monastery’ (Ó Muirgheasa 1936, 145). (Ó Muirgheasa Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for resear Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

A natural spring well located to the W of Kilbarron Church (TN009-003). The well is rectangular (dims. 1.4m x 1.5m; D 0.3m) and is enclosed by a drystone wall except at NW where the road runs past the well. No votive offerings visible. The above descrip Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]

In marshy waste ground to NE of graveyard (CO107-04602-) and within early ecclesiastical enclosure (CO107-046001-). Known locally as “”St Finbarr’s Well””. Rectangular stone-lined well (D 0.8m). Practically dry when visited. Seems to be still in holy use. Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Site of well recently re-discovered in rough grazing on W-facing slope. Some stone-facing and spring uncovered c. 2m below present ground level; a local group propose to restore the well. MacCarthy (1937,17-8) suggests that this is the ‘site of the first Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer