Christian Sites

Marked on the 1839 and 1941 eds of the OS 6-inch map and described in gothic lettering on both as St. Nicholas’ Well. It is situated towards the bottom of a steep N-facing slope in a mature deciduous wood. St. Nicholas of Myra, whose feastday falls on Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View […]

Marked on the 1839 and 1925 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and described as St. Agatha’s Well on both, although John O’Donovan writing c. 1840 describes it as St. Agnes’ Well (O’Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 363). It is located on a fairly level, low-lying landsca Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]

In the NE quadrant of the graveyard. This is traditionally known as St. Ailbe’s well. The circular well is now covered in mass concrete, 0.4m above the ground and 1.92m in diameter. There is a square aperture in the concrete, 0.28m wide, which gives very Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

Situated at the bottom of a steep W-facing slope and c. 30m NW of the graveyard (WX046-018003-) in an area that has been quarried. A pattern was held at the well on an unknown date according to John O’Donovan writing c. 1840 (Herity 2014, 140), althoug Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]

This natural spring well is situated at the base of a ridge in St. Anne’s Park. It has an elaborate rustic covering with a stone-lined access way. Formerly of some repute. No longer venerated (Ó Danachair 1957-58, 78). Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Ó Danachair (1955, 209) recorded the following details about this holy well; ‘St Anne’s Well on 1840 map. A small oval well, about three by two feet, roughly walled with dry-stone to one foot over ground level. An old whitethorn tree grows over the well Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

Some 500m SSE of Clontuskert Abbey (GA088-001—-). A poorly preserved dried-up holy well, dedicated to St Augustine, comprising an unroofed rectangular drystone well-chamber (N-S 0.94m, E-W 0.8m). A low stony bank delimits the monument at N, S, and W, w Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

On the flat flood plain of the Kings River which flows c. 35m S of the well. The Augustinian friary (KK026-010016-) of Callan is located c. 60m to the N. Indicated on the 6-inch OS map as ‘St. Augustine’s Well’. It is a clear spring well surrounded by a Monument Type: Ritual site – holy […]

Three wells are represented as antiquities and are named ‘St Augustine’s Wells’ on both the OS Fair Plan and 1st ed. 6-inch map, on the roadside at the High Water Mark on W side of Loch an tSáile on outskirts of Galway city. Two of these wells (GA Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well […]

On rough low-lying ground. Farrell (1891, 284) recorded that this well was known as ‘Barry’s Well’ and was so named after St Berach but the present patron of the area is the Blessed Virgin Mary, and her feast day is celebrated by the local people on the Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View […]

Situated on low-lying ground at the E edge of the Blackwater estuary. A rectangular court (dims. 4.5m E-W; 2.5m N-S) defined by stone slabs can fill with sea-water when the tide comes in. The well is one source of a network of streams that meander off to Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View […]

On S slopes of Knockroe hill. A natural spring well enclosed by a circular stone wall (D 3.4m) with access at S. The well occupies N half of the enclosure and is cut off from S half by a low stone wall. Three steps at W end of this wall lead down to the Monument […]