Christian Sites

On a low-lying landscape, in a field on the E side of a NNW-SSE road. Traditionally this well appeared when a notorious landlord, George Ormsby, attempted to cure an injured dog at Tobernagreghta well (RO040-016—-) c. 65m to the W, from whence it moved Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment […]

In a low-lying position on the E bank of a small S-N stream or drain. St Bridget’s holy well, which is c. 110m NE of Drum church (RO051-063001-), was conserved in 1987-9. This is a circular well lined with limestone and surrounded by limestone paving sto Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]

Situated 145m SSW of Tully House and 150m SSE of Tully graveyard (KD022-034001-) containing the Preceptory of the Knights Hospitallers (KD022-034—-). In 1837 Thomas O’Conor of the Ordnance Survey recorded that ‘St Brigid’s Well lies in the west of the Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Ó Danachair (1955, 215-6) recorded the following details about this holy well; ‘St Bridget’s Well’ local name. This well was first noted by O’Kelly, North Munster Antiquarian Journal, 1944, 17. “Dedicated to St Bridget. Devotion to it has ceased but was Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Ó Danachair (1955, 216) recorded the following details about the holy well; “St Bridget’s Well” on 1840 map. Tradition in the district is unanimous in calling this “St Colman’s Well” and not “St Bridget’s Well”. OSL gives “Tobar Colmain, S. Colman’s Wel Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

In pasture, located at the base of a S-facing slope. There is a modern house c. 20m to SW. Indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as ‘St Bridgets Wells’ and on the 1916 edition as ‘St Bridget’s Wells (Site of)’. A circular pool (diam. 0.7m) is en Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well […]

Ó Danachair (1955, 209) recorded the following details about St Broney’s Well; ‘Close to the ruin (LI039-012001-) called Kilbroney. The well is now dry and the stone work collapsing. Only a few old people have heard that it is a holy well. No traditio Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment […]

This is marked on the 1840-41 and 1914 OS maps as ‘St Colman’s Well’ (Tobar Colmáin). Situation and Description: It is now closed up and the water piped to Ballylongford. Rounds: No devotions have taken place here in living memory. The well was visited Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment […]

According to Jackson (1979-80, 160) the well was situated ‘in a big field called the “Sileacain”‘, (a rill) and was visited during the month of August for a cure for sore eyes and faces, but was subsequently flooded and was no longer visited. It lay near Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]

Described in gothic script as St. Cormick’s Well on the 1839 and 1924 eds of the OS 6-inch map and located towards the bottom of a S-facing slope with an E-W stream c. 50m to the S and a N-S road c. 20m to the W. A pattern was held at the well on 22nd […]

On a N-facing slope in pastureland. This natural spring well is known as ‘St Erneen’s well’. It is enclosed by a circular drystone-built wall with a gap (Wth 0.9m), now blocked with wooden fencing, opening to the N. It is capped with a circular sto Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

Located in pasture on the floor of a N-S valley, at the bottom of the W-facing slope. It is depicted on the 1835 and the revised 1944 editions of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as ‘St. Everan’s Well’. John O’Donovan, Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]