Christian Sites

Ó Danachair (1955, 210) recorded the following details about St Margaret’s Well; ‘small open well in the garden of a new cottage. No devotions now, and only a vague tradition that it was a holy well. “There are stations performed at this well for the Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

Located on a high plateau with a slight S-facing slope. It is described as St. Michael’s Well on the 1840 and 1927 eds of the OS 6-inch map, but there is no evidence of, or record of, veneration. It does not survive in a coniferous forest. Date of uploa Monument Type: Ritual site – holy […]

Located on the W side of a short promontory (dims. c. 260m E-W at S; c. 200m N-S) jutting N into the confluence of the W-E Glendine River with the N-S Blackwater River, and c. 110m SW of the site of Templemichael church site (WA037-013001-). This is a na Monument Type: Ritual site – holy […]

Described as ‘St Mochua’s Well’ on the 1840 and 1927 eds of the OS 6-inch map. Situated at the bottom of a S-facing slope, and just on the N bank of the E-W Greagagh River, c. 2 km E of where it joins the N-S River Blackwater and c. 300m W of Clashmore c Monument […]

Located at the bottom of a NE-facing slope and c. 30m from the W bank of a NW-SE stream. It is described as St Mogue’s Well on the 1840 and 1924 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and is now located under the Ferns to Gorey road (N11). It was enclosed in 1847 whe Monument […]

Described as St. Moling’s Well on the 1839 and 1924 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on the NE bank of a NW-SE stream, in its steep-sided valley. This is a U-shaped well (dims. 1.25m E-W; 0.8m N-S) defined by a drystone wall and open to the E. It i Monument Type: Ritual […]

Ó Danachair (1955, 207) recorded the following details about this holy well; ‘St Molua’s Well on 1840 map. A clear spring in an open field 250 yards east of Emlygrennan church (ruined). A circular wall about the well, and a life size statue of the saint Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]

High Cross located in Carlow.

Situated towards the top of the W-facing slope of a N-S ridge. The parish church of Kill St Nicholas (WA018-007001-) and its graveyard (WA018-007002-) are associated with the site of St Nicholas’ Well is c. 15m to SW, and evident as a concrete-lined holl Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment […]

Described as St Nicholas’ Well on the 1840 and 1926 eds of the OS 6-inch map, it is situated on the S bank of a wide and deep W-E stream, c. 70m W of where the stream meets a larger S-N stream. The well had been surrounded by a wall until 1841 when it wa […]

Marked similarly on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated towards the bottom of a NE-facing slope with Kilnamanagh church (RO009-056001-) c. 150m to the SW. It is not visible at ground level. Archaeological testing (07E0767) during 2007 c. 100m Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

On flat ground at the bottom of a N-facing bluff (H c. 6m) and c. 50m from the SW bank of the NW-SE Boyle River where Ath Carpait, the ford of the chariot, may have been (FitzPatrick 1998, 354). A subcircular well (dims 1.4m NE-SW; c. 1m NW-SE) is covere Monument Type: Ritual site – […]