Christian Sites

In 1942-4 a holy well known as ‘Tobermore’ was recorded on the land of J. Harte though there had been no pilgrimages to it for over 80 years (ITA). The exact location of this holy well is not known and it is possible that it is in that part of Treanmore Monument Type: Ritual site […]

On the floor of the Arigna river valley, with land rising to the E, in reclaimed grassland. According to the OS Letters (1839), the holy well was ‘stopped up six years ago’ i.e. c. 1833 (O’Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 208 (69)). However this appears to be cont Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View […]

This is a strong spring well, the only source of freshwater on Lambay Island. A pattern was formerly held each year on Trinity Sunday (Healy 1975, 22; Ó Danachair 1958, 81; Coghlan 1946, 157-159; Scantlebury 1945, 81). The trustees have submitted a pla Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Marked on the 1835 and 1938 ‘OS 6-inch’ maps as ‘Trinity Well’. The OS Letters refer to a formal station here on Trinity Sunday in the mid-nineteenth century (CLAJ 1929, 54). Described in 1967 (ASI field notes) as an ‘irregular small pool, lined with sma Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

Marked on the 1839 and 1925 Eds of the OS 6-inch map and described as Trinity Well in gothic lettering on both. It is situated in the valley of a NE-SW stream, which is c. 10m to the S, and the graveyard (WX041-026002-) of Tincurra church (WX041-026001-) Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View […]

Located at the crest of a SE-facing slope. This is annotated as ‘Trinity Well’ in gothic script on the 1836 and 1908 editions of the OS 6-inch map, but nothing is known about it. From the aerial imagery it would appear to be no longer extant. Compi Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View […]

Recorded by the OSL (Herity 2002, 31) as ‘…frequented always on Trinity Sunday’ (the eight Sunday after Easter), and still, according to Jackson (1979-80, 145-6), the site of a Pattern on that day, during which pilgrims drink the water which is conside Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Situated on a level landscape. A well is depicted on the 1839 and 1925 eds of the OS 6-inch map at Genstown and is described in gothic lettering on both as Trinity Well. According to John O’Donovan writing c. 1840 the pattern, which had been held on Tr Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well […]

Ó Danachair (1955, 210) recorded the following details about Trinity Well; ‘A strong spring issuing from the rock, roughly covered with slabs of stone. Devotions are still made occasionally; formerly large crowds came on the Saturday before Trinity Su 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 Trinity Well on both, and additionally as ‘Site of’ on the later map. It is located on a N-facing slope adjacent to Wexford Harbour and was associated with the Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View […]

According to Lynch (1994, 639) there is a holy well known as ‘Fraughan’s Well’ in the townland of Trooperstown that is mentioned in the 1930s Irish Folklore Commission, Schools Manuscript Collection (IFC S 918: 155; IFC S 1127: 48). The folklore Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Unlocated holy well possibly located in the townland of Trusk which was recorded by Ó Muirgheasa in 1936 (No. 73). Ó Muirgheasa recorded that ‘coming inland we find a Holy Well in the mountains to the east of Barnesmore, and on the Donegal side of Loug Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]