Christian Sites

Knights Hospitaller founded before 1212, confirmed by Innocent III dissolved before 1400

Located outside the perimeter of Cavan burial ground (LE029-022001-) at W is a rectangular enclosure (dims 10.5m N-S; 7m E-W) defined by wire fences and coniferous trees containing a drystone-built subcircular well (dims 1.3m E-W; 1m N-S; D 1m) dedicated Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

OS 28 (Precise location not discovered) 54 (Ó Muirgheasa No. 64) The above description was derived from the ‘Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.’ Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Situated in a clearing within deciduous woodland and at the bottom of a slight N-facing slope with the W-E River Deel c. 35m to the N. It is dedicated to the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin, but John O’Donovan, writing in 1836, had little faith in this Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View […]

Unlocated holy well dedicated to St. Mary in the townland of Killyverry. Described in the 1937/8 Schools Folklore Collection as, in ‘The field in which the well is belongs to Miss Houston, Killyverry, Newtowncunningham…water cure for some ailement…e Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

In pasture, on N-facing slope. Well located at SW end of natural ovoid depression (10m NE-SW; 8m NW-SE; D 0.85m) where loose setting of stones encloses muddy area (1.4m NE-SW; 1.2m NW-SE. Depression covered by dense vegetation. According to local informa 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

Unlocated well in the townlands of Kilmacanoge North/South. According to Lynch (1994, 642) there is a holy well in the townland of Kilmacanoge that is mentioned in the 1930s Irish Folklore Commission, Schools Manuscript Collection (IFC S 946: 57). The 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

In rough grazing land, at the base of outcropping rock, on the steep W-facing slopes of Maulin Mountain. The most westerly of a pair of two holy wells (see CO115-102002-) c. 50m apart and known locally as ‘St John’s wells’. A roughly rectangular well (0. Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

In rough grazing land, at the base of outcropping rock, on the steep W-facing slopes of Maulin Mountain. The most easterly of a pair of two holy wells (see CO115-102001-) c. 50m apart and known locally as ‘St John’s wells’. A roughly rectangular well (2. Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

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