Christian Sites

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[notes 103]

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 […]

Marked only on the 1941 ed. of the OS 6-inch map where it is described as St. Nicholas’ Well. St. Nicholas of Myra, whose feastday falls on the 6th December, was a 4th century bishop in Turkey and a renowned gift-giver, on whom much of the character of Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well […]

Situated about 400m SSE of Coolinarrig graveyard (WI027-027003-). The well has been diverted into a field drain, now marked by an alder tree. According to the OS Name Books the pattern had ceased around 1790. The above description is derived from the pu Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

In level grassland. Named ‘Well’ in Roman script on the OS 1:2500 plan (surveyed 1912-16), this spring well, dedicated to St Anne, consists of a pear-shaped well surround delimited by a stream to the N and rock outcrop to the S. The circular well chamber Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

Unlocated holy well within the townlands of Boleynass Upper/Lower. According to Lynch (1994, 641) there is a holy well known as ‘St John’s Well’ in the townland of Boleynass that is mentioned in the 1930s Irish Folklore Commission, Schools Manuscr 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