Christian Sites

Situated by the side of the road on a marked W-facing slope. A spring contained within a square basin lined with slabs, roofed with a slab and approached by a step. The well is known locally as having a cure for warts. A pattern was held here on the 9th Monument Type: Ritual site – […]

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. Date of upload/revision Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Formerly located by the roadside on the outskirts of Swords village. There is no visible surface trace of this possible holy well as it has been built over. Local tradition held that the waters cured eyes and mouth, the name is derived from ‘sliop’ meani Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

No trace of this ‘Tobershannon’ now survives. It was situated in wet boggy land S of the Erne. Recorded in 1936 as ‘Tobar a’ Seanaigh at Sminver, parish of Inish mac Saint. No stations at present’ (Ó Muirgheasa 1936, 144). In 2004 excavations were car Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

Located in SOHEEN, County CLARE. 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 Archaeological Survey Reference: CL025-101—- Data sourced from the Archaeological Survey of Ireland.

At the N foot of a short, moderately steep slope on the W bank of the Royal Canal. According to Jackson (1979-80, 160) the well is not associated with any specific saint but is believed locally to be near the site of a monastery. It is associated with a Monument Type: Ritual site – holy […]

Marked ‘St. Connell’s Well’ on the 2nd and 3rd editions of the OS 6-inch maps. It was not possible to locate a specific feature. There are many water-filled depressions in the bedrock here close to the foreshore on the N side of Inishkeel Island. Descri Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

In pasture, c. 40m N of Spa House (14789). Warm spring forming small pond, with stream flowing from NW side. Not in holy use. Known locally as “spa well”. According to Brück (1987, 45-8), largest of Mallow warm spring group ‘being 13.6m in diameter and Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

In Mallow, inside Spa House (14789), c. 40m S of Lady’s Well (14038). Stone-lined well which, according to Grove White (1905-25, vol. 4, 69), was dedicated to St Patrick though Lewis (1837, vol. 2, 339), associates it with St Peter. Well no longer in hol Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

At the foot of a low limestone bluff c. 150m WSW of Teampall na Ceathrar Álainn (GA110-086001-). This well, correctly Spíce Gort an Tobar, is a natural spring flowing into a hollow in the bedrock. It is defined on N side by a mortared stone kerb. No of Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well […]

Along a stream in undulating grassland. According to local tradition, there was a holy well here; no visible surface trace survives. The above description is derived from the published ‘Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II – North Galway’. Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

On a rise in the undulating landscape on the S shore of Lough Macnean, and on the W side of S-N laneway. Described locally as a flat slab (dims. c. 1.4m x c. 0.6m) which was supported at either end by single stones. It was damaged in land reclamation c.1980 and subsequently removed. (Gallogly 1993-4, […]