Christian Sites

Lady’s Well is one of six holy wells (OF029-015006-/007-/008-/009-/010-) recorded by the Ordnance Survey in 1838, only four of these six wells were depicted on the OS 6-inch maps. Today the precise location of this holy well cannot be identified on the g Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

In a small cluster of trees to the W of a N-S running road. Named Lady’s Well on the 1838 and 1933 editions of the OS 6-inch maps. Details from The Schools’ Collection (https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4583352/4582158/4591454 last accessed 12 December 2 Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Ó Danachair (1955, 206) recorded the following details about this holy well; ‘Lady’s Well on 1840 map. The well still exists and is known to have been a holy well, but there are no devotions and no other traditions’.Compiled by: Caimin O’BrienDate of u Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment […]

Located in a small hollow on a gentle E-facing slope and c. 40m S of a W-E road that leads to the seashore c. 350m to the E. The well is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, but according to John O’Donovan writing c. 1840, it had not been venerated for Monument Type: Ritual site […]

Situated in modern Roadstone quarry on a rocky N-facing slope overlooking the sea, to the S of site of Chapel Hogan (WI045-005—-). Site of St. Patrick’s Well (WI045-007—-) 210m to the SE. The well has dried up since the quarry opened, and the site Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment […]

The location of the original Lady’s Well was in a field at the junction of Lady’s Well Street and Bohereenglass. The present well, although channelled from the same stream as the original, is a recent monument erected at the junction of the main Dublin a Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

On SW-facing slope. The above description is derived from the published ‘Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork’ (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the ligh Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

In scrub, on S-facing slope. Marked ‘Lady’s Well’ on OS 6-inch map (1842). Stone built; roofed with cross-inscribed lintel. Stone crucifixion slab (c. 0.6m x c. 0.5m) (CO052-055—-) atop roof; small cross inscribed on figure by visitors to well. In occa Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Tober-Naom-Leigion/Tobar Naomh Eléan (St. William’s Well): This slab-lined spring well, also known as St Helen’s/Helena’s well (Rice 1976, 24), is located on the lower S slopes of Kilbeg mountain, Valencia Island. A small concrete niche stands above it Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Located at base of stone-faced field fence, covered by lintel. Surrounding area very marshy. No longer in holy use. The above description is derived from the published ‘Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork’ (Dublin: Stationery Of Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Roberts (1988) records ‘the site of an old holy well which is named after the townland’. The above description is derived from the published ‘Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork’ (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain ins Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

In a hollow, on a W-facing slope. A spring well enclosed by a concrete covering. There is no evidence of recent veneration at this well. The above description is derived from the published ‘Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo’ compiled by Ursula Eg Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer