Christian Sites

Situated on a slight E-facing slope in a field that was known as ‘Boylan’s Garden’ or ‘The Meenauns’, it is one of the sources of the W-E Broad Meadow River that flows to the Irish Sea through Ratoath and Ashbourne. St Sechnall’s Well is ment Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

Some 35m to the SW of the church (GA103-118001-) at Drumacoo. Dedicated to St Sorney, this holy well consists of a roughly circular stone-lined sunken spring well (diam. 1.7m), surrounded by a circular stone-built well chamber (diam. c. 4m). Access is vi Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Described as St. Stephen’s Well in gothic script on the 1839 and 1940 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and the name is mentioned by John O’Donovan writing c. 1840 (O’Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 341). St. Stephen was one of the first converts made by the discip Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View […]

In undulating countryside on the W bank of the River Barrow. Site of Castle (LA026-009001-) 135m to NW, Tankardstown church (LA026-009004-) and graveyard (LA026-009003-) 90m to S. ‘St. Thomas’s Well’ is visible as a shallow pool of water (Wth c. 1.1m, L Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

On a low mound in a field c. 120m E of Dysert O’Dea Romanesque church (CL025-091001-). This is the high cross of St. Tola, traditionally the founder of the monastic site, listed in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996) as ‘Cross’ and sometimes known as the ‘White cross of Tola’. Described by Harbison (1992, […]

A well is marked on the 1839 and 1925 eds of the OS 6-inch map and described in gothic lettering on both as St. Vogue’s Well. According to John O’Donovan writing c. 1840 the pattern was held on January 20 (O’Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 297), which is th Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well […]

Dedicated to St Werburgh, the natural spring well was overgrown, situated beside a stream which forms the townland boundary between Crowscastle and Barrysparks. There was a local tradition that its water cures sore eyes but by the 1950s was no longer ven Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Situated on the S side of a small fold towards the bottom of the steep E-facing slope of the Slaney valley with the N-S river c. 200m to the E. The site of St John’s Well where the pattern was held on 24th June until c. 1800 according to John O’Donovan Monument Type: Ritual site […]

Described by Ó Muirgheasa in 1936 as ‘Tobar na Súl, “the Well of the Eyes,” is the name of a Holy Well on the top of Cnoc a’ Toighe, to the south of Churchill. Stations used to be made here till about 1860. Evidently the well-was regarded as a cure for Monument Type: Ritual site […]

Indicated on the 1938 ‘OS 6-inch’ map. The OS Letters refer to a well SE of the old church (LH017-015001-) called Tober Phadraig. The same well seems to have been later called St. Brigid’s Well (MacIvor 1956, 403). Tradition claims St. Patrick struck a s Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

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. 34598,DG00299,HICR,DG011-035005-,DONEGAL,CHURCHLAND QUARTERS,R177384,646267,945025,55.250204380000000,-7.272339790000000,Cross – High cross,Cross,Cross,https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG011-035005-,This monument number records the original location of a high cross Monument Type: Cross – High cross View […]

To SE of centre in a graveyard (KD028-049011-) on an early monastic site (KD028-049001-). Part of a National Monument (No. 71) in state ownership. According to Bradley et al. (1986 vol. 4, 394), the East Cross, of granite, comprises a tall rectangular shaft (H. 3m; L 0.5m; Wth 0.4m) with undecorated panels outlined by low […]