Christian Sites

At cliff-edge on S shore of Great Island. According to Coleman (1894, 53) named Tobar a Sillee or Sellee. No visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published ‘Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Co Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

On the E-facing slope of Ballybrickan Hill, at the junction of Patrick St. and Stephen St. According to Canon P. Power there was a well of dubious antiquity and sanctity dedicated to St Patrick which was closed in during the late 19th century (Power, 191 Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

In wooded area, on E side of Awbeg River and 250m E of Buttevant. Rectangular spring well, lined with stone. Shrine of stone, containing Blessed Virgin, set on E side. Trees on N and E sides adorned with rags. According to local information, visited in M Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]

Historic Monument No. HM003511, this monument was entered in the Register of Historic Monuments on the 22 December 1980. A granite, undecorated, solid-wheeled cross (H 1.92m; Wth across arms 0.87m) with edge mouldings and slightly projecting arms, set in rectangular base (L 0.71m; Wth 0.6m). (Harbison 1992, 184 (entry 232)) 32770,CW00363,HICR,CW009-028003-,CARLOW,GLEBE (Rathvilly By.),R145812,696369,676096,52.827196909999998,-6.570000960000000,Cross – High […]

Situated at the S edge of a fairly level landscape with a small canalised stream c. 70m to the S. St Bridget’s Well is c. 30m W of the church (ME030-029—-) and is attached to a N-S drain at a point where it turns W and then resumes a S course. It was Monument Type: […]

Inishtooskert, the northernmost of the Blasket island group, lies 4 miles off the W extremity of the Dingle Peninsula and 2.5 miles N of the Great Blasket. An area of 241 acres is bounded on all sides by sea-cliffs, and the land slopes upwards in a NW di Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well […]

Located in LIOS DEARGÁIN, County KERRY. A spring well which now supplies water to a dwelling-house in the nearby village. It lies about 200m NE of a large early ecclesiastical enclosure and calluragh (KE043-190001-) and in 1960 rounds were still being made at the well and at the calluragh on G Archaeological Survey Reference: KE043-189—- […]

On Inchcleraun island, c. 180m to the SW of an ecclesiastical enclosure (LF021-048001-) and 80m to the NW of an earthwork (LF021-049—-). Named ‘Well’ on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, this is possibly the holy well, dedicated to St Diarmuid, re Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment […]

Marked Toberdouglas on the OS 6-inch maps, the well had dried up by 1886 (Kinahan 1885-86, 425). This holy well is located 140m N of Templedouglas church (DG052-019001-) and graveyard (DG052-019006-) and 500m W of a second holy well (DG052-018—-). T Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

To the S of the monastery site (WI003-031002-), a small spring now enclosed in a brick and cement trough, may be the well marked on the map. The OS Letters (O’Flanagan 1928, 3) mention that the well was visited for headache cures. The above description Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

Inishvickillane, the southernmost of the Blasket islands, lies 7 miles SW of Slea Head and 9 miles from the nearest embarkation point at Dunquin pier. The island has an area of 199 acres and the Early Christian monastic settlement KE061-006—- lies at t Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

In a field close to low cliffs on E shore of the island. Known locally as Tobar na Seacht nlníon, it consists of a natural spring issuing from a granite boulder. In front of this are many loose stones which probably once formed part of a surround or alt Monument Type: Ritual site – holy […]