Christian Sites

A well is marked on the 1839 and 1925 eds of the OS 6-inch map and described as ‘St. Patrick’s Well’ in gothic lettering on both. It is situated on a level landscape with a small S-N stream c. 15m to the W. According to John O’Donovan writing c. Monument Type: Ritual site – holy […]

On the W slope of Knockpatrick Hill, overlooked by church and graveyard (LI010-058001-/002-) on summit of hill. Roughly oval-shaped well (diam. c. 1m) enclosed by uncoursed limestone with a flagged base (water c. 0.4m deep). This is surrounded by a concr Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Marked on the 1839 and 1941 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and described in gothic lettering as ‘St.Patrick’s Well’ on both. It is located in a slight fold on a SE-facing slope overlooking the NW shore of the inner Wexford Harbour. This is a circular we Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View […]

Ó Danachair (1955, 213) recorded the following details about this holy well; ‘St Patrick’s Well on 1840 map. This is the well which gives its name to Patrickswell village. The well was open formerly, with a great elm tree standing beside it. Formerly Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Situated on flat pasture in an upland area. A natural spring well of rectangular plan (0.75m x 0.65m x 0.9m H) enclosed by a stone canopy set into the S face of a low rise of ground with a stream running out from the S face of the well. No votive offerin Monument Type: Ritual […]

Located at the bottom of a S-facing slope and on the floodplain of a SW-NE section of the River Boyne c. 120m to the SE, and c. 700m W of the town. This is thought to be the location where St Lommán baptised Foirtchern, the son of Feidhlimidh and grands Monument Type: Ritual site – […]

St Patrick’s Well described by Ó Danachair (1955, 216) as following; ‘The spring still flows in an open field, but is defaced by cattle trampling. Still known as a holy well, but devotions have ceased. “Frequented as a holy well in the present time’.The Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment […]

Slab covered well in the centre of a farmyard. The Ordnance Survey Letters of 1838-40 (O’Flanagan 1928, 95-6) recorded that ‘a well now closed up, but formerly much frequented under the name of Tubber Patrick or Patrick’s Well; this well is in Mr. Gorma Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment […]

In low-lying grassland prone to flooding. The OS Letters note that by 1839 this well was ‘dried up’ (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 499). All that survived when it was visited is a number of limestone blocks and rubble, obscured by overgrowth. Details fr Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Situated on the W slope of a steep rocky hill a short distance N of the site of a possible graveyard (CV032-005001-). Well has been infilled and there are no remains visible at ground level. (Davies 1948, 81-2) The above description is derived from the Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

Situated in modern Roadstone quarry on a rocky E-facing slope overlooking the sea, 210m SE of Lady’s Well (WI045-006—–) and 280m SSE of the site of Chapel Hogan (WI045-005—-) and graveyard (WI045-005001-). Like the Lady’s Well (WI045-006—-), this Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Three holy wells dedicated to St. Patrick and St Paul depicted on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map. Ó Danachair (1955, 209) recorded the following details about these wells; ‘There are two holy wells, St Patrick’s and St Paul’s Wells, on the east side of K Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]