Christian Sites

This well is not marked on any editions of the OS maps, but was known locally as ‘St Laichtin’s Well’.Situation and Description: According to the Folklore Commission of Ireland (1938-39), this was a small dry-walled well, 2ft in diameter. No trace of thi Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

On E bank of stream, in steep-sided wooded valley. D-shaped well (3.5m N-S; 2m E-W) enclosed by stone wall (H 1.75m; Wth 0.5m) S->N and by low cliff face on E side. Overgrown and abandoned. In similar condition when visited by Grove White (1905-25, vol. Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

Mass-rock in the Slieve Bloom Mountains, no other features visible (Feehan 1979, 210). 117597,OF00465,MARO,OF009-016—-,OFFALY,BALLEEK,R143700,634383,730348,53.322274770000000,-7.483924650000000,Mass-rock,Not indicated,Not indicated,https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF009-016—-,No surface remains of any mass rock in the area marked on the OS 6-inch map. Described as a mass-rock by Davies in 1942 who describes ‘in a small valley. The rock is either a rock outcrop or a large […]

Located on a bluff overlooking a S-N valley just to its E. St Carthage’s Well was associated with the church known as Relig Mhuire (WA021-019022-), which was somewhere to the N, but when the water was diverted c. 100 years ago veneration became attached Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment […]

The precise location of the holy well in the townland of Lismore has not been identified. Holy well mentioned in 1940 in the minute book of Co. Kerry Field Club which recalled; ‘The local residents mention that there was a holy well in connection with t Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]

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

At the bottom of a S-facing slope at the head of a small NE-SW valley with a stream in a coniferous forest. A line (L 3m ENE-WSW) of four stones (dims. c. 0.5m-0.8m x 0.5m; H 0.5m), one of which has a pointed top (H 1.1m), meets a second line (L 1.1m) running S from […]

In the 1940s a holy well called ‘Tobar Muine’ was recorded as being a short distance N of Jagoe’s Mills. It was also noted that pilgrimages to it had ceased. Its precise location is not known despite local enquiries. The above description is derived fro Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

High Cross located in Fermanagh.

Marked as a ‘Holy Well’, on the 2nd and 3rd editions of the OS 6-inch maps. There are now no special features, or traditions, associated with it. It is located on good land. The above description was derived from the ‘Archaeological Survey of County Don Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

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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