Christian Sites

Bishop Hugh’s Well or Tobar Aidan is depicted on all editions of the OS 6-inch maps. Natural spring well located at base of S facing ridge in marshy area with view of Foyran Church (WM001-042—-) and graveyard (WM001-042001-) 230m to WNW. Spring well Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

A dried up well called Cloch Breac (Speckled Stone) associated with St. Patrick. It appears that Smith, who became landlord of Blakestown in 1849, closed the well and built up the roadside fence at this point to stop people trespassing, after the road wa Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment […]

Situated on a fairly level landscape. St. Kevin’s Well, which was restored in 1990, is across the road to the SW of the site of St. Caomhán’s early church that became the medieval parish church of Diamor (ME015-056001-). It is a D-shaped corbelled str Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment […]

According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 498), in Boggan townland, ‘there is a well called Tubber na Cruchthanee, or, as the old people explain the name, Well of the Holy Cross’. O’Kelly (1985, 28) also mentions this well, calling it, ‘Tobar na Croiche Naoi Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment […]

In flood plain on SW side of Funshion River, just N of Glanworth. Well overgrown; water runs off to NE; site marked by sandstone plinth (1m x 1m; H 1m) to SE; no longer in holy use. Smith (1750, vol. 2, 344) described ‘a fine spring, bubbling out of a li Monument Type: Ritual site […]

A natural spring alongside a field boundary in a field of rough pasture which falls away to the N. There are traces of dry stone walling around it. The site is marked by elder bushes (Ó Danachair 1958, 82). No longer venerated. Compiled by Geraldine Sto Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]

This holy well was reported to ASI by Sarah McCutcheon, archaeologist with Limerick County Council on 16th October 2012. She described the well as follows: “it’s a roadside well, built into the ditch, with an outfall continuing northward which eventual Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Situated immediately E of a small road on a S facing slope in the valley of a small tributary of the Mulkear River. An irregular area (c. 2.6m N-S; 2.3m E-W) enclosed by a wall of concrete blocks (H 0.9m) is filled with water to ground level. In the Nati Monument Type: Ritual site – […]

High Cross located in Fermanagh.

Franciscan Friars Minor, Conventual — actually Claregalway — erronesously identified as a separate foundation

Described as a ‘Boiling Well’ on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as Tobermuire – Mary’s Well – on the 1940 ed. Situated at the bottom of a SE-facing slope, it is the source of a stream that runs off to the SW, but no well structure is visible. Ther Monument Type: […]

Situated on the W side of a road just N of a WNW-ESE stream and c. 150m SE of Templeshanbe church (WX014-010001-). St Colman’s Well is a rectangular drystone structure approached by stone steps, where the pattern was held on 27th October (Ó Broin 1983-4 Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]