Christian Sites

Ó Danachair (1955, 209) recorded the following details about this holy well; ‘St Anne’s Well on 1840 map. A small oval well, about three by two feet, roughly walled with dry-stone to one foot over ground level. An old whitethorn tree grows over the well Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

Some 500m SSE of Clontuskert Abbey (GA088-001—-). A poorly preserved dried-up holy well, dedicated to St Augustine, comprising an unroofed rectangular drystone well-chamber (N-S 0.94m, E-W 0.8m). A low stony bank delimits the monument at N, S, and W, w Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

On the flat flood plain of the Kings River which flows c. 35m S of the well. The Augustinian friary (KK026-010016-) of Callan is located c. 60m to the N. Indicated on the 6-inch OS map as ‘St. Augustine’s Well’. It is a clear spring well surrounded by a Monument Type: Ritual site – holy […]

Three wells are represented as antiquities and are named ‘St Augustine’s Wells’ on both the OS Fair Plan and 1st ed. 6-inch map, on the roadside at the High Water Mark on W side of Loch an tSáile on outskirts of Galway city. Two of these wells (GA Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well […]

Three wells are represented as antiquities and are named ‘St Augustine’s Wells’ on both the OS Fair Plan and 1st ed. 6-inch map, on the roadside at the High Water Mark on W side of Loch an tSáile on outskirts of Galway city. Two of these wells (GA Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well […]

Three wells are represented as antiquities and are named ‘St Augustine’s Wells’ on both the OS Fair Plan and 1st ed. 6-inch map, on the roadside at the High Water Mark on W side of Loch an tSáile on outskirts of Galway city. Two of these wells (GA Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well […]

On rough low-lying ground. Farrell (1891, 284) recorded that this well was known as ‘Barry’s Well’ and was so named after St Berach but the present patron of the area is the Blessed Virgin Mary, and her feast day is celebrated by the local people on the Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View […]

Situated on low-lying ground at the E edge of the Blackwater estuary. A rectangular court (dims. 4.5m E-W; 2.5m N-S) defined by stone slabs can fill with sea-water when the tide comes in. The well is one source of a network of streams that meander off to Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View […]

Situated in a small N-S valley with a stream just to the W. Originally dedicated to St. Baramedan (Ryland 1824, 271), the patron saint of Kilbarrymeaden parish, it has become corrupted to St. Bernard’s Well. This is a large circular drystone-lined well ( Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

On S slopes of Knockroe hill. A natural spring well enclosed by a circular stone wall (D 3.4m) with access at S. The well occupies N half of the enclosure and is cut off from S half by a low stone wall. Three steps at W end of this wall lead down to the Monument […]

In pasture, in natural dip in W-facing slope. Circular pool of water (diam. 10m), enclosed by metal tubular railing set in concrete W-ESE. Five concrete steps, at SSW side, descending to well. Water is drained away through concrete pipe at NNW. Pool over Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Situated on a gentle S-facing slope. St Bernard’s Well is described in gothic lettering on the 1836 and 1908 editions of the OS 6-inch map. In 1836 John O’Donovan describes the well as Tober Seannachainn (Herity 2001, 43), and the name had been recor Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment […]