Christian Sites

In 1942-4 it was recorded that a well known as ‘Tobar Lastra’, also called locally ‘The Cove Well’, was situated on Miss Lang’s land and was visited by pilgrims in the past; Mass was said there during penal times and a ‘mass stone’ was removed from there Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View […]

In rough grazing land, on the NW-facing slopes of Knockanallig on Bere Island. Due to a dense cover of gorse and moor grass, the holy well could not be found. O’Sullivan (1992, 54-5) recorded that it was associated with St Michael, that it was known loca Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]

Holy well described by O’Sullivan and Sheehan (1996, 325, no. 983) as; ‘Two stone-lined wells, formerly visible within the enclosure, and an old tree at its S end, acted as focal points for a pattern that was held here on Good Fridays up until the 1950s Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]

For descriptive account see O’Sullivan and Sheehan (1996, 325, no. 983, one of ‘Two stone-lined wells…’). The above description is derived from the published ‘Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry’ (Dublin: Stationery Of Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

St. Columkille’s well is now a modernised water spout. Described by Ó Muirgheasa in 1936 as ‘There is a St. Colmcille’s Well on the shore at Moville’ (Ó Muirgheasa 1936, 161). (Ó Muirgheasa no. 105). The above description was derived from the ‘Archa Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

On E side of stream, in wooded area, on mass-path connecting road to E with Mitchelstown to W. Open, U-shaped well lined with brick and backed by low brick wall; area of brick paving around edge. ‘For nine days before and nine days after the feast of Sai Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well […]

Canon Courtenay Moore (1908, 64-65) was shown ‘the Well of St. Paul’ on the boundary of the land of John Kent, ‘a beautiful spring well’ with a ‘parochial reputation’. Landowner located site of holy well, now closed in with no visible surface trace. Bull Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment […]

The Ordnance Survey Letters (1838-40) record that ‘about ¼ a mile S.E. of the church in a hollow on the brink of the cliff and under the very nose of Bray head, they show a well called by some the church well, but by the older people Patricks well’ (O’F Monument Type: Ritual site – […]

Porthaw holy well is covered by a large boulder on the N face of which is a wheeled cross carved in relief. It is situated at the foot of Crockacashel on the foreshore. The above description was derived from the ‘Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

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

In pasture, on steep hillside. Water-filled hollow under sycamore tree; roots of tree exposed and enclose well; filled by water dripping through roots. Some water now drains into trough to SE.The above description is derived from the published ‘Archaeolo Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer