Christian Sites

Keatings Well/Tobar Chéitinn: According to An Seabhac (1939, 123), this is not a holy well. However, an alternative name for the site is ‘Tobar Naomh Céitinn’ (Ó Danachair 1960, 78) and there is a local tradition that rounds were made here ‘hundreds Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

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Bowman (1934, 716) noted holy well in same field as burial ground (14109), though ‘Rounds have not been paid for practically 100 years. The usual whitethorn tree grows by the well.’ May be unnamed well c. 35m N of burial ground; base of concrete, sides a Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]

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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

High Cross located in Meath.

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Situated on a marked S-facing slope in rocky terrain. Natural spring with no associated features still regarded locally as a holy well. The name means ‘well of the rocks’ (tobar na carraige) (Price 1949, 173). The above description is derived from the p Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Situated immediately E of a kink in a stream, in poorly drained pasture. Indicated on the 1927 OS 6-inch map as ‘Kenny’s Well’. Described by Ó Danachair (1955) as ‘a clear spring well about three feet in diameter…the water cured many ailments. Locally Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Knights Hospitaller founded before 1212; dissolution unknown

The OS Letters (1839) mention, ‘a well called Nicholas’s Well lies a little to the west of it [‘it’ being the church (KK022-015001-) and graveyard (KK022-015002-) at Kilballykeefe]’ (O’Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 237 (81)). The church is also desc Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

On the south bank of river which has been deepened and a linear park developed either side of it. There is no trace of the well or any local tradition except for the name on the road ‘St Donaghy’s road’. It was formerly visible as a pool marked by an ash Monument Type: Ritual site […]