Christian Sites

Located on the grounds of a farm house close to a stream. It is an enclosed spring well with a dry stone walled entrance passage (L. 6m). Venerated in living memory. Pattern day on May 1st. (Healy 1975, 18; Ó Danachair 1958, 73). Known locally as Lady W Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well […]

Natural spring well situated in an area of rock outcrop adjacent to farm buildings. Enclosed by a recently constructed ditch and bank which was built to keep farm animals out. Annotated ‘Lady Well’ on all editions of the OSi historic maps. Described by Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Possible holy well annotated ‘Lady Well’ in gothic script on 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload; 25 July 2019 Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

A spring well at the bottom of a ravine SE of the River Delvin. Approached from an overgrown pathway. No longer venerated (Healy 1975, 16). The well is a chalybeate spring. Circa 2000, the owner capped the spring in a concrete structure (Skyvova 2005, 59 Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

Annotated ‘Lady Well’ on 1837 edition of the OSi 6-inch map. Located in low-lying field of tillage 70m S of Gracedieu Augustinian Nunnery (DU007-015001-). St. Bridget’s Well (DU007-015003-) 220m to NNE. No surface remains visible. Site of Lady Well desc Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Situated in woodland area on W facing slope of rising ground overlooking Killinure Bay on 45m to the WSW. Bunown church (WM022-031001-) and graveyard (WM022-031001-) 200m to SSE. Boat House 10m to SSW contains late medieval punch-dressed stone taken fr Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Natural spring well in a waterlogged area at the foot of an ash tree with castle (DU005-004—-) 50m to S. Lady Well described in 1958 as a ‘small well lined with stones with a slow spring of clear water among the roots of an old ash tree. The well was Monument Type: Ritual site – […]

Situated in a slight col between a low spur to the SW and a low plateau c. 600m to the NE. A rectangular well (dims. 1.2m E-W; 0.9m N-S; H 1.7m) has a concrete and stone surround and is contained in a cairn (diam. 5.5m; H 1m at E to 2m at W) of grass […]

Marked on the 1839 and 1924 eds of the OS 6-inch map and described in gothic lettering as Lady Well on both. It is situated on a slight W-facing slope and on the S side of a NE-SW road. According to John O’Donovan writing c. 1840 the site of Lady Well Monument Type: Ritual site […]

Marked on the 1839 and 1924 eds of the OS 6-inch map and described in gothic lettering as ‘Lady Well’ on both. It is located in a small NW-SE valley close to the headwaters of a small stream that is c. 1m to the S. It is a rock-cut pond (diam. c. 2.5 Monument Type: […]

In a possible ecclesiastical enclosure (KD014-022002-), immediately outside, to NW, of a church (KD014-022001-) and graveyard (KD014-022005-). According to the OSL (Herity 2002, 46 (142)), ‘About 50 perches (c.250m) from the old Church (KD014-022001-) to Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Marked on the 1839 and 1925 eds of the OS 6-inch map and described as Lady Well in gothic lettering on both. It is located at the bottom of a W-facing slope, c. 15m from the E bank of the tidal estuary of the NNW-SSE Tintern stream and c. 25m S of the ol Monument […]