Christian Sites

Situated within the monastic site on the E portion of Scattery Island c. 20m W of the cathedral (CL067-024008-). The tower (H 26m; diam. at base 5.08m) is complete except for the very top of the cap but is closed over internally. There are no floors or ladders remaining and entry through the ground-floor doorway […]

In tillage on N-facing slope. ‘Tobereenedenaght – Tobairin a Dinigh (little well of the medicinal draught) and locally , Surfeit Well’. (O’Donoghue 1986, 116). No visible surface trace.The above description is derived from the published ‘Archaeological I Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

‘Very little is known about this holy well, except that St Colum is said to have visited this Holy place where Mass was said during penal times and to have said Mass there. Local people once paid rounds there.’ (Joseph Moriarty, 1985)The above descript Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment […]

Some 200m N of a church (GA056-055001-), adjacent to a small stream. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map. According to OS Letters (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 187), it was called ‘St. Eny’s holy well … a large and venerable ash tree grows over it’. No visi Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well […]

Part of the monastic complex at Kilmacduagh: located c. 40m to the SSW of the cathedral (GA128-034004-). By the 19th century this round tower (H 34.3m; diam. c. 5.5m), a National Monument, was in a very dilapidated state. The greater portion of its cap was missing and the whole of the SW side was breached. […]

Indicated on all OS eds. but not acknowledged as an antiquity. Dedicated to St Killian (local information). The well is sited within a subrectangular enclosure defined by a stone and concrete wall which is rounded at E and open at W. A small stone cross Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

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Situated in a hollow at the base of a slight SW-facing slope, on N shore of Lough Gill, in mature deciduous forest. The well consists of a natural spring that has been lined by a roughly rectangular drystone wall (dims. L NW-SE 2m; Wth NE-SW 1.25m; Max H Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well […]

High Cross located in Tyrone.

On the E side of a road, and on a S-facing slope, at the point where a stream emerges from underground. The well is partially enclosed by a stone wall, part of which is of recent construction. A crucifixion plaque (SL046-013002-) dated to the 1660s is se Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View […]

In rough grazing land, at the base of a field boundary on a N-facing slope. Spring water flows into an irregular opening (0.8m E-W; 0.5m N-S; H 0.8m) under the field boundary. Stones are placed on the N side of the opening, from which the water flows dow Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well […]

In rough hill pasture, in a hollow on a S-facing slope to the E of the summit of Knocknahulla. The holy well consists of a roughly circular water-filled depression (0.4m N-S; 0.35m E-W; D 0.35m) in the peaty soil. A cross-inscribed stone (CO127-046001-) Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer