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Explore Ireland's sacred Christian heritage sites including Holy Wells and High Crosses

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Holy Well Wexford

Mountgeorge Holy Well

Situated at the bottom of a NW-facing slope with a NE-SW stream c. 150m to the NW. It was first recorded in an Environmental Impact Statement for the M11 road scheme (Scott-Cawley 2009, section 15, 24). It is called St. Maunyeen’s well, or St. Maureen Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

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Holy Well Sligo

Mountirvine Holy Well

Adjacent to a field boundary, in low-lying damp ground at the base of a drumlin ridge. The present remains are a muddy unenclosed hollow. In 1836 it was noted that the well was also known as ‘Tubbernacagher’ and ‘Tober na Mainistreach’ and was not then i Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]

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Holy Well Cork

Mountnorth Holy Well

Covered over and incorporated into Cork County Council water supply scheme; no longer visible. According to Grove White (1905-25, vol. 1, 140), OS Field Book of 1840 records ‘Tubberhuwhen, Joanna’s well’ as holy well’ though he adds that it is not locall Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

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Holy Well Clare

Mountshannon East Holy Well

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

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Holy Well Donegal

Moyagh Holy Well

OS 36 (Precise location not known) 58. There is some confusion regarding the location of Ó Muirgheasa No. 66. It proved impossible to discover the location of this holy well. Described by Ó Muirgheasa in 1936 as ‘There is a Holy Well, now nameless, in Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

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Holy Well Clare

Moyfadda Holy Well

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

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Holy Well Clare

Moygalla Holy Well

Period: Early Christian

Located in MOYGALLA, County CLARE. 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 Archaeological Survey Reference: CL052-028—- Data sourced from the Archaeological Survey of Ireland.

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Holy Well Clare

Moynoe Holy Well

Period: Early Christian

Located in MOYNOE, County CLARE. 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 Archaeological Survey Reference: CL029-002—- Data sourced from the Archaeological Survey of Ireland.

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Holy Well Westmeath

Moyvoughly Holy Well

Situated in low-lying, wet pasture, to the immediate E of a structure (long-axis N-S). Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a well. A bullaun stone (WM030-025002-) lies c. 55m to W. According to English (1968), a holy well named after St Patrick is Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]

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Holy Well Kilkenny

Muckalee Holy Well

According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 455), there ‘was a holy well, destroyed long ago, in Mr. Hunt’s “Faugha,” a couple of fields north-east of the church [Muckalee church KK010-069001-]’. The precise location of this holy well is unknown.Compiled by: Je Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

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Holy Well Clare

Muckinish (Inchiquin By.) Holy Well

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

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Holy Well Galway

Muintir Eoghain Thoir Holy Well

On SW side of Gleann an Mháma overlooking Joyce’s River on the valley floor. This spring well, correctly Tobar na Seacht nlníon, consists of a small wet hollow at the foot of a rock scarp. It appears to have been originally covered by a lintel (now dis Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View […]

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