Christian Sites

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Ó Danachair (1955, 202) recorded the following details about this holy well; ‘Mary Magdalene’s Well on 1840 map. In a grove of whitethorn bushes. A masonry cupola over the well has a niche for a life-size statue of the saint. Rounds still made, especi Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment […]

Located towards the top of an E-facing slope. A well is marked on the 1839 and 1925 Eds of the OS 6-inch map and described as St. Mary’s Well in gothic lettering on both. A slight depression is evident in a pasture field. Compiled by: Michael Moore D Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well […]

Known locally as ‘Tobar an Ratha Bhain’ (Hartnett 1947, 17). Identified as wheel-house of horizontal wheeled mill (9309) and excavated by Fahy (1956a,13-57), prior to flooding by Lee Valley Hydro-electric Scheme. He described well as having been ‘three-w Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Marked ‘Turras Columbkille’ on 1905 ed. of OS 6-inch map. Its location is derived from the fieldwork map for the ‘Archaeological Survey of County Donegal’ (1983). Described by Ó Muirgheasa in 1936 as ‘There is a Turus Colmcille at Colmcille’s Holy Well Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Situated on a little col with higher ground to the NW, E and S, lower ground to the W and a small S-N stream valley just to the E. The mass-rock was in a small mass-garden, which was a small rectangular field (dims c. 65m NE-SW; c. 35m NW-SE) described as a Mass Garden o […]

The OS Letters (1839) recorded that, ‘There is a Patron held still on the 29th June at Lady’s Well, about half a mile east of the church [of Kilmacar KK010-038001-] but this well is no longer to be seen’ (O’Flanagan ed. 1930, vol. 1, 29 (10)). Carrigan ( Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well […]

Augustinian Friars refuge from Dunmore 1645

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Marked on the 1841 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch maps. Reference to a holy well here (O’Hanlon and O’Leary 1907, vol. 1, 192). No visible surface remains. The above description is derived from the published ‘Archaeological Inventory of County Laois Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Located at base of an E-facing wooded slope. The main Ballina-Killala road lies c. 20m to E. This spring well consist of a rectangular depression (2m E-W; 1m N-S; D c. 1m), which is dug into the hill slope and faced with drystone walling. An uncovered ou Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View […]

At the crest of the SW-facing edge of a low plateau. Conglomerate boulder (dims 3m NW-SE; 1m NE-SW at NW to 2m NE-SW at SE; H 0.8m at NW to 1.5m at SE) with a vertical and straight SW edge (max. H 1.8m) where a modern stone altar (dims 1.5m x 1m; H 0.9m) has […]