Christian Sites

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

Dried up poorly preserved well with no other features visible. (O’ Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 47-8; Shaw 1971, 56-7). The above description is derived from the published ‘Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly’ (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certa Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Holy well originally dedicated to St. Brigid but changed to St Matthew in the post 1700 period (Walsh 1957, 103). This holy well is depicted as ‘Bridgets Well’ on the 1654-59 Down Survey map of Kilmacnevan parish (NLI, MS 723-4). The terrier of this pa 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 research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 […]

Reference to St. Abban’s Well (O’Hanlon and O’Leary 1907, vol. 2, 580). Situated in undulating countryside. No visible surface remains. Described in the History of the Queens County as’ Mass used to be said during the penal era under a holly bush in one Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment […]

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

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

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 research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 […]

Unlocated holy well within townland, Tobernamnamaha well mentioned in the OS letters (O’Flanagan 1930, 176). The above description is derived from ‘The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 – North Tipperary’ compiled by Jean Farrelly and Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

On the NW side of the Douglas River, at the point where a stream emerges from the SW end of a narrow rocky ravine. The area is covered with overgrowth and the well was not located. A secular well, named ‘Darby’s well’ on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch Monument Type: Ritual site – […]

In rough grazing land, on the NW-facing slopes of Knockanallig on Bere Island. Due to a dense cover of gorse and moor grass, the holy well could not be found. O’Sullivan (1992, 54-5) recorded that it was associated with St Michael, that it was known loca Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]

Holy well described by O’Sullivan and Sheehan (1996, 325, no. 983) as; ‘Two stone-lined wells, formerly visible within the enclosure, and an old tree at its S end, acted as focal points for a pattern that was held here on Good Fridays up until the 1950s Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]