Christian Sites

Along a dry stream bed in grassland on W outskirts of Tuam town (GA029-199—-). Its name and representation on OS 6-inch maps suggest that this was a holy well. However, it could simply have taken its name from the ‘Presbytery’ marked on the maps 70m to Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]

Bowman (1934, 45) recorded holy well in T. Guiney’s; ‘Rounds have long since been discontinued. The well is enclosed by a circular fence. Two trees of mountain ash grew by the well. One of these has now decayed. It was customary for visitants to the well Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]

Not marked on any edition of the OS maps but known locally as ‘Linden’s Well’. No trace of this well survives today and no other information exists on it except that it is said to be a holy well (Holly, 1981). No tradition of rounds or legends survives.T Monument Type: Ritual site – 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

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

Located at the W edge of a low-lying basin. References to this Lughnasa well date from the early 14th century (MacNeill 1962, 633-4; Anon. 1992). The well, where according to J. O’Donovan writing in the 1830s a pattern was held on 31st July (O’Flanagan 1 Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

‘There is a holy well there (Rabbit island), where ’rounds’ used to be paid in olden times, and a strand there is still called Traig an Tobair’ (Burke 1914, 69); unable to locate. The above description is derived from the published ‘Archaeological Inven Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Set into hillside, at head of narrow glen, approached by narrow stone-faced path Surrounded by semicircular stone-built wall (H 0.8m); roofed by single slab. Stone-covered drain (Wth 0.3m) channels run off. On either side, two slabs, each inscribed with Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Situated c. 55m ENE of the foundations of Raffony church and outside of the original perimeter of the ecclesiastical establishment (CV039-071001-). The well is semicircular and is enclosed by a drystone wall and roofed by two flat slabs. Entrance is at S Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Ó Danachair (1955, 205-6) recorded the following details about this holy well; ‘Rag Well on 1840 map. This is not a well proper, but a large bullaun, ten inches [0.25m) in diameter and five inches (0.12m) deep in a rock which protrudes from beneath th Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

Described as a ‘Rag Well’ in gothic script on the 1839 and 1940 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a very steep W-facing slope down to the N-S River Barrow/Nore. This is a natural spring in a rock pool that overflows into a muddy stream. There Monument Type: Ritual site – holy […]

Marked on 1842, 1905 and 1935 OS 6-inch maps and named ‘Belanagare Well’. Located at T-junction in road. No visible surface trace of well. The above description is derived from the published ‘Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer