Christian Sites

Marked on the 1839 and 1940 eds of the OS 6-inch map and described in gothic lettering on both as St. Man’s Well. It is probably named after St. Munna of Taghmon (WX040-008003-), whose feastday falls on 21 October (Ó Riain 2011, 505-07), but there is Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]

A monastery at Lemanaghan (Liath Manchán) was founded in the 7th century by Manchán whose feastday is celebrated on the 24th of January (Ó Riain 2011, 429). In pasture, with early Christian oratory (OF015-004006-) and Romanesque church (OF015-004003-) Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Marked on the 1839 and 1925 eds of the OS 6-inch map and described as St. Mannan’s Well in gothic lettering on both. The name is a corruption of Moininne, one of the most famous female saints in early Christian Ireland. She was connected with the Ui Ea Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well […]

Annotated St. Margaret’s Well on the 1837 ed. OSi 6-inch map. On the revised 1863 edition of the OSi map the dedication has been changed to St. Brigid. Access is via laneway from rear of the Parochial Hall. St Margaret’s church (DU014-002001-) and grav Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment […]

Marked on the 1839 and 1924 eds of the OS 6-inch map and described in gothic lettering as ‘St. Margaret’s Well’ on both. It is located in a small marsh with sand-dunes and the sea-shore c. 450m to the SE. The well is a natural pond (diam. c. 8m) bu Monument Type: Ritual site – […]

This holy well is indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map. According to Hogan (1860-1, 358) it, ‘gushes from under an aged ash’. A pattern was formerly held there on the 15th of August (Carrigan 1905, vol. 3, 497). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]

Marked on the 1839 and 1925 eds of the OS 6-inch map and described in gothic lettering on both as St. Margaret’s Well, with the additional information ‘Site of’ on the latter. It is situated at the bottom of a slight W-facing slope and on the N side of Monument Type: Ritual site – holy […]

Marked on the 1839 and 1925 eds of the OS 6-inch map and described as St. Margaret’s Well in gothic lettering on both. It is situated in the valley of a N-S stream, which is c. 15m to the N and W. The name is known locally, but there is no knowledge of Monument Type: […]

Marked on the 1839 and 1941 eds of the OS 6-inch map and described in gothic lettering as St. Margaret’s Well on both. It is located on a shelf of a NE-facing slope overlooking Wexford town. It is not visible at ground level in an open area in the Coll Monument Type: Ritual site – […]

Marked on the 1839 and 1940 eds of the OS 6-inch map and described in gothic lettering as St. Margaret’s Well on both. It is located on an E-facing slope, in a recess on the E side of a N-S road. This is a rectangular well (dims 1.6m N-S; 0.9m E-W) wit Monument Type: Ritual […]

Marked only on the 1925 ed. of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in italic lettering as St. Margaret’s Well. It is built into the W side of a field bank on the SW side of a NW-SE road, with the seashore c. 180m to the SE. A circular stone-lined w Monument Type: […]

In reclaimed pasture. There are a number of streams in the vicinity including one c. 20m to the W which flows NNE-SSW. According to the OS Letters (1839) the well, dedicated to St Martin, ‘is situated in a bog about two hundred yards to the north east of Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well […]