Christian Sites

Situated in a very marshy area and visible only as a wetter area within this. A spring which according to the OS Name Books was believed locally to have had curative powers. The name possibly means ‘well of the cuckoo’ (tobar na gcuach). The above descr Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]

Situated on flat well drained land with bog on all sides. Circular well (D. 3.5m deep; Diam. 1.5m) with dry-stone lined shaft, water filled at time of visit. Holy well appears to have been filled in or covered over in recent times. Well shaft no longer Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]

On a S-facing slope. Subcircular well (dims 1.2m x 1.1m) defined by a drystone wall (H 0.5m) with a whitethorn bush nearby. Known locally as Lugakeeran Well, which had a cure for stomach pains, it is not visited anymore, and there is no evidence of vener Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]

John O’Donovan writing in the 1830s recorded the name of a well – Tober Padraig – in the townland of Lughawnagh (Flanagan 1929, 132), and Faughnan (1943) says it is on the land of Hugh Mc Cordick, but even then it was not remembered beyond its name. Com Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well […]

O’Leary (1906-08, 199) quotes Comerford who wrote, ‘A Holy Well is stated to have been here (at the early ecclesiastical site (KD012-006—-)) formerly, but it is no longer to be seen. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011 Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Monastery founded here in the 6th century by Colmán Eala who died in 611 (Ó Riain 2011, 203; Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 41). Present remains consist of a multiperiod church (OF016-031001-) originally of pre-Romanesque date with later 15th and 17th-centu Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

In a small pocket of woodland surrounded by pasture. Named ‘Macduagh’s Holy Well’ on the 1838 and 1922 editions of the OS 6-inch maps, this natural spring well is known locally as ‘Colman’s Well’. It is rectangular in shape (1.56m N-S; 0.94m Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

This well is dedicated to St. Bridget. Situated at the end of a garden (modern bungalow) right beside the road. Now covered over with concrete slabs (presumably to keep clean as it is probably used by the householders). Described by Ó Muirgheasa in 1936 Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment […]

According to Power (1908, 74) in Magherareagh townland there is a well called ‘Tobar Naoimh Eoin – “St. John’s Well”; on south boundary of the townland’. This well remains unlocated within the townland. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 Aug Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Located towards the bottom of the SE-facing slope of a NW-SE drumlin ridge and c. 65m W of a N-S section of the Fane River. A N-S section of disused railway embankment is just to the E. It is marked only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it Monument Type: Ritual […]

One of two wells (CO072-028001-) on either side of narrow stream valley. Overgrown and inaccessible. Rarely used when visited by Hartnett (1939, 237); ‘It is a shallow spring well, partly covered by a flat horizontal stone. There area few faded flowers a 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