Christian Sites

Situated on level ground, the well is surrounded by concrete shoring and supplies the nearby farm. When the concrete was put in there were no traces of any features around the well, which may be associated with the church (WI045-010001-) and graveyard (W Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

St. James’s Well is situated in the grounds of the Franciscan friary church (KD040-002005-) in Castledermot town. It is neglected and no longer visited. Jackson states that there are no traditions associated with the well (JKAS 1979-80, 150). Date of up Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Some 160m NW of, and upslope from, a graveyard. (GA094-049001-). It apparently consists of a natural spring, now incorporated into one of the private gardens of Cruachan Park housing estate where it has been extensively landscaped (info. T. Fanning). Not Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

In rough pasture, c. 20m S of Kings River and c. 15m N of the Callan-Kells road. According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 323-4) this is, ‘one of the finest springs in Co. Kilkenny. A pattern, with the usual pilgrimages, was held here formerly’. O’Kell Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

In low-lying marshy pasture, on W bank of river. Circular area (diam. 10m), enclosed by low roughly-coursed stone wall, with spring at centre. Access to well, through opening in wall (Wth 1.05m) flanked by concrete piers, at N. Spring covered by roughly- Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Holy Well locally known as ‘Tiobrait Well’. One of three wells of which only one has curative powers which is known as ‘St. James’ Well’. In 1955 Ó Danachair described the site as; ‘A well about six feet in diameter and four feet deep. Elder, ash and Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View […]

St. John the Baptist’s Well/Tobar Eoin Baiste: A drystone-built well located on the W side of Minard Bay, about 150m NE of Kilmurry church (KE054-061—-). A small stone which stands above the well bears a plain, inscribed Latin cross on its E face. Roun Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment […]

Marked as a holy well only on the 1940 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on marshy ground in the valley of the W-E Urrin River with the stream c. 70m to the N and the N-S River Slaney is c. 125m to the E. Nothing is visible in a scrub-covered area. Monument […]

Situated in a grove on the N shore of Killone Lake, 125m NE of Killone Augustinian nunnery (CL041-062001-). The well, dedicated to St. John, is just inside the W entrance to a subrectangular walled enclosure (29m E-W; 17-20m N-S). The well comprises a ma Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment […]

Adjacent to Preceptory of St. John the Baptist (see Castledermot town). There are no known traditions associated with the well, which is now covered over. Date of upload: 16 September 2016 Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Some 10m SSE of a church (GA076-005001-). This well, correctly Tobar Cáillín, is indicated on 1st and 2nd eds of OS 6-inch map. Not visited. (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 139) The above description is derived from the published ‘Archaeological Inventory Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Located at the bottom of a SE-facing knoll of limestone outcrop, and in an enclosed rectangular area (dims c. 50m NW-SE; c. 20-30m NE-SW) devoted to it. The well is dedicated to St Kerran or Ciarán, whose church of Belach Dúin (ME016-009—-) is c. 350 Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]