Christian Sites

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

Part of St Enda’s monastery (GA119-006006-) on Inis Mór. The stump of a tower (D 4.7m ext., H >3m) built of well-dressed and fitted limestone blocks on a narrow plinth. No trace of a doorway survives. (Lennox Barrow 1979, 99-100; O’Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 346-7) 55622,GA14715,ROTR,GA113-139005-,GALWAY,KINVARRA (Kiltartan By.),,0,0,46.488181429999997,-15.817314300000000,Round tower,Not indicated,Not indicated,https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA113-139005-,Gwynn and Hadcock (1970 Monument […]

Some 20m N of a round tower (GA119-006005-) at the foot of a low limestone outcrop. Named ‘Dabhach Éinné, Dolium Endei’ in OS Letters (O’Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 347), it is known locally as Tobar Éinne. It consists of a natural spring, delimited by dr Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

Marked on the 1839 and 1925 eds of the OS 6-inch map and described as St. Edan’s Well on both in gothic lettering, but it is more correctly known as St. Aidan’s Well, after St. Aidan of Ferns (Murphy c. 1994, 13, 196-201). It is situated in a small N Monument Type: Ritual site – […]

A wooden statue of St Maelruan or Maol Ruain, gothic in style (H c. 66cm) and representing a bishop was found in the 19th century at the saint’s well (MacLeod 1946, 162-4). St. Maol Ruain founded the monastery of Tallaght, Co. Dublin in 774 and was a lea Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well […]

On a rocky ledge on the W slope of a steep-sided, wooded ravine. Thre is a steep fall of ground to the river in the base of the ravine. The well, named ‘St. Ernan’s Well’ on the OS 6-inch maps, and traditionally associated with St. Farannan, consists of Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well […]

St. Eusebius’ Well is marked on the 1839 and 1941 eds of the OS 6-inch map. St. Eusebius of Vercelli in Italy was a 4th century saint renowned for introducing monasticism to the west and for his endeavours against the Arian heresy (Butler 1990, 108) (h Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]

In marshy grassland to the NE of a stream. Named ‘St. Fallan’s Wells’ on the 1933 edition of the OS 6-inch map and depicted as a small rectangular structure on the N side of a NE-SW running channel/stream, which flowed into a larger stream to the S Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View […]

This record was created on the basis of the name ‘St. Fallan’s Wells’, which is depicted on the 1933 edition of the OS 6-inch map to the W of a small rectangular structure. On the 1838 edition of the map, the name ‘St. Faelan’s Wells’ is show Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View […]

The OSL (Herity 2002, 38) record, ‘… St Farannan’s (sic) well, where stations were formerly performed on the 12th of June (some say July). Farannan is considered the Patron-Saint’ . According to Jackson (1979-80, 148) various cures were said to have be Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

In pastureland c. 30m to the NE of St Feighin’s Grave Yard (GA126-038—-). This holy well is enclosed by a semicircular drystone wall (diam. 0.95m) and is accessible via an entrance at N. A small stream flows from it. Dalton (1909, 19) noted that the de Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]

Located at the bottom of a S-facing slope with the church of St. Feidhlimidh, and from 1454-c. 1860 the cathedral of the diocese of Kilmore (CV025-070004-) on the hilltop c. 120m to the N. A well is depicted on the 1835 and 1908 editions of the OS 6-inch Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well […]