Christian Sites

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, near base of E-facing slope. In area of outcropping limestone. Well has been obscured by a modern concrete pump-house (H 2m; 3.6m N-S; 2.1m E-W). Directly adjacent to E wall of pump-house there is a roughly ovoid shaped area (2m N-S; 1.45m E- Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

According to Seán MacCarthaigh (I.T.A. Survey 1942), ‘St. Brigids Well which it seems gave its original name to the place is situated at the eastern side of the road, coming past Broomley to Tracton’. Exact location not known.The above description is de Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Holy well associated with Skerry Monastery

At the edge of a laneway, at the convergence of three field boundaries, on a SE-facing slope with limited views due to surrounding vegetation. Situated c. 45m to S of ecclesiastical enclosure (CL035-022001-), which contains a medieval church (CL035-02200 Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Holy well located immediately N of Tullabracky Castle (LI031-078—-) with Tullabracky church (LI031-077001-) and graveyard (LI031-077002-) 180m to N. Holy Well described in 1840 as following; ‘at a very short distance southward of the old Church, clo Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

On the ESE-facing slope of Tullaghan Hill, between the inner and outer enclosing walls of the cliff-edge fort (SL026-001001-) and close to the inner wall. An algae-covered pool (D 0.4m) filling an oval hollow (0.8m NW-SE; 0.6m NE-SW) cut into the hill-sl 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

Roadside. Surrounded on three sides by brick walls (H 0.95m; T 0.4m); roofed with limestone lintels (L 0.65m). Name derives from ‘well of (curing of) the ague’ (O’Leary 1918, 116). According to Casey (1983, 134) “Rounds” were performed here up to the beg Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

In angle formed by road and stream. Keyhole-shaped pool (1.4m x 0.6m) lined with rubble stone, covered by stone wall with galvanised roof. Run-off from pool on S side, where two stone steps provide access to pool. No devotional objects present. According Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

The following description is derived from the published ‘Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow’ (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

According to Fitzgerald (1903, 130-1), the well dried up after the Kildare water works were established nearby to the NW; at which time a whitethorn bush and large stone marked the site. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 22-12-2011 Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer