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St. Patricks and St Pauls Wells
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 […]
St. Patricks and St Pauls Wells
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 […]
St. Peakaun’s Well
At the base of a NW-facing slope with a stream running roughly N-S c. 7m to the W. A stone-lined, roughly circular well (dims. 1.6m x 1.56m; D 1.2m) with cement mortar. Two stone steps lead down to water in the NNE quadrant. A covered channel runs NNW-SS Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well […]
St. Peter’s & St. Pauls’ Well
Ó Danachair (1955, 206-7) recorded the following details about this holy well; ‘St Peter and St Paul’s Well on 1840 map. A clear spring covered by a small stone structure. No rounds or devotions now, but rounds were made and rags hung on an old thorn t Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View […]
St. Peter’s Well
Situated in a shallow valley on the NE bank of a NW-SE stream. St. Peter’s Well, where patterns were held on the 29th of June until c. 1810 according to John O’Donovan writing c. 1840 (O’Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 99) is now a small pond created by a s Monument Type: Ritual site – holy […]
St. Peter’s Well
In grassland on a W-facing slope of rising ground located 250m NW of St. Aible’s graveyard. This well is marked on the latest edition OS 6-inch map as ‘site of’, however, on inspection it would seem that the well is under a large rock. The rock is partly Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well […]
St. Peter’s Well
In a wooded area, at the base of outcropping rock on the S bank of the Owbeg River and c. 30m W of St Paul’s Well (KE094-001003-). This well, which is dedicated to St Peter, is situated in the W half of a roughly oval area (diam. c. 80m E-W) which is enc Monument Type: […]
St. Peter’s Well
Marked on the 1839 and 1925 Eds of the OS 6-inch map and described in Gothic lettering on both as St. Peter’s Well. According to John O’Donovan writing c. 1840 the pattern was held on St. Peter’s day, the 29th June, until c. 1800 (O’Flanagan 1933 Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]
St. Ronan’s Well
On low-lying ground c. 20m from the N bank of a SE-NW stream. This is an oval well (dims 0.95m NE-SW; 0.75m NW-SE; D 0.65m) defined by a masonry wall (Wth 0.5m; H 0.6m) which is open to the SW and which has a trough (dims 0.9m x 0.4m) on top of the wall. Monument […]
St. Scoheen’s Well
A holy well known as St. Scoheen’s Well (KK015-030006-)is located approx. 60m W of an early medieval church (KK015-030001-) and graveyard (KK015-030002-). The natural spring well has been incorporated into the S section of the 19th-century graveyard wall Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer
St. Shaughlin’s Well
Situated on a slight E-facing slope in a field that was known as ‘Boylan’s Garden’ or ‘The Meenauns’, it is one of the sources of the W-E Broad Meadow River that flows to the Irish Sea through Ratoath and Ashbourne. St Sechnall’s Well is ment Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]
St. Sorney’s Well
Some 35m to the SW of the church (GA103-118001-) at Drumacoo. Dedicated to St Sorney, this holy well consists of a roughly circular stone-lined sunken spring well (diam. 1.7m), surrounded by a circular stone-built well chamber (diam. c. 4m). Access is vi Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer