Christian Sites

No surface trace visible of a holy well dedicated to St. Colmán. This monastery appears to have been named after St. Colman the black or ‘Black Colman’ which formed part of the monastic estate of Monaincha (TN018-001001-), Co. Tipperary. In 1503 t Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Ó Danachair (1955, 214) recorded the following details about this holy well; ‘St Sennan’s Well (site of) on 1840 map. St Sennan’s Well, now dried up; it was frequented as a holy well about 20 years since. OSL. No tradition survives’.Compiled by: Caimin Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Annotated ‘Site of Sunday Well’ on the 1837 ed. OSi 6-inch map and as ‘Sunday Well’ on subsequent historical OSi maps. A natural spring well it was formerly a ‘station well of great estimation’ (Ó Danachair 1958, 81). Infilled during roadworks c. 1974 ( Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment […]

In pasture, on N side of field fence. Well now covered by four stone slabs; water from it pumped to nearby dwelling. Photograph taken May 1913 (Grove White 1905-25, vol. 3, opp. 340) shows opening to well set into field fence, lined with stone and topped Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]

This is a natural spring well on W side of Slade river valley. Dedicated to St. Senan (Ó Danachair 1958, 83). Compiled by Geraldine Stout Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

A fragment of a high cross (dims 0.26m x 0.13m; L 0.27m) that was in the outer face of the W wall of the S aisle has now been moved to the OPW depot in Trim for safe-keeping (Harbison 1998). It has a moulding at each angle and the larger panels have small mouldings. One […]

Located on the E-facing slope of the Hill of Slane and just inside the N wall of the graveyard (ME019-060016-). John O’Donovan in the 1830s described Tobar Patrick as having stones to the ground level but the well ran dry in the summer. There was a sto Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View […]

National Monument No. 116. A plain granite cross, (H. c. 1.45m, W. of arms c. 0.73m, W. of shaft 0.36m, T. c. 0.26m). A plain granite cross with cusps (H. c. 2.8m, W. of arms c. 0.7m, W of shaft c. 0.35m, T. c. 0.25m) located in W quadrant of graveyard (LA032-018002-) immediately W of […]

Situated just N of Kinneigh round tower (CO094-10402-). No visible surface trace.The above description is derived from the published ‘Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork’ (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances th Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

On N side of road. Stone-lined well housed in tall stone-built structure with arched entrance; cement steps lead up to well. Renovated c. 1973. Plaque beside well dedicates it to St Berrihert. Rounds made on Palm Sunday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday.The Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Situated on a low rise of ground near the E shore of Lough Derg. A shallow depression (Wth 1.8m) is all that survives of Toberaughan. No enclosing element or votive offerings visible. Described in the Ordnance Survey Namebooks (1840) as a ‘holy well so c Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

A roughly circular hollow cut into a rock outcrop forms this holy well. A tradition records an inscription on the base but it was not possible to verify this. Described by Ó Muirgheasa in 1936 as a ‘Holy Well in Cruck townland, a quarter of a mile to th Monument Type: Ritual site – holy […]