Christian Sites

The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for resear Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Towards the top of the outer E-facing scarp of an enclosure (CL018-053—-) truncated by a quarry immediately to the S in an area with houses under construction. This is a very rough limestone boulder (1.18m N-S; 0.4-0.7m E-W; H 1m) with some lichen and moss and there are two other slightly smaller examples towards the […]

A holy well called Craignasol is now covered by a modern pump. The above description was derived from the ‘Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.’ Com Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

A holy well known as Turas Boden no longer survives. It was situated beside the Culdaff River. (Ó Muirgheasa No. 103) There are now three steps to the “”well”” where it had once been. There is a tank built there now. This well dedicated to St. Buadan was Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well […]

The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for resear Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Located in the defile (D c. 4m) cut for a NNW-SSE road, on the E side of the road. This is a well fed by water from a pipe and with an overflow pipe to the NW. It has an arched and rendered canopy (dims 0.78m NNW-SSE; 0.75m ENE-WSW; H 0.73-0.83m) with an Monument Type: […]

In level pasture SE of Sprat Hill. Natural spring surrounded on three sides by low earthen bank (H c. 3m); open to W. To W of well in same field are 14 small cairns in straight lines running N-S. These are said to represent decades of the Rosary. Peniten Monument Type: Ritual site – holy […]

Situated at the bottom of an E-facing slope with a NW-SE road just to the NE. The well is only depicted on the 1912 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in italic script as ‘St. Nicholas’ Well’. Cogan (1867, 2, 351) regarded it as a h Monument Type: Ritual site – […]

Site of a holy well dedicated to St Finan of Kinnitty, which has been recently restored by a local stonemason who built a stone canopy over the well. Located beside the well is a large bullaun stone (OF036-065001-) with two deep circular depressions on i Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

Unlocated holy well within the townlands of Cunniamstown Beg/Little. According to Lynch (1994, 637) the Ordnance Survey Letters of 1838-40 recorded the presence of a holy well in one of these townlands. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 21 Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

According to Power (1923, 201), there was a holy well called Tobairín na Trágha – the Strand Well – ‘a quarter of a mile from the strand’. Some votive offerings still in his time. Exact location not known. The above description is derived from the pub Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on […]

A group of possibly four holy wells, located c.8m east of the graveyard (CO115-045001-) surrounding the ruins of Kilaconenagh church (CO115-045002-) to the west of Castletownbere. Situated on the southern edge of a ridge of exposed bedrock, now heavily o Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer