Christian Sites

This well exists in the Provosts garden of Trinity College, directly west of the main entrance to the college at Nassau Street (Gilbert 1861, III, 247). Formerly called ‘St Patrick’s well Lane’ this is a natural spring thought to mark the S boundary of t Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

Revealed during road works in the early 1990’s. Comprises a stone-lined well (D6m, diam. 0.8m). Thought to date from c. 1700 when Eustace Street was laid out. This provided access to fresh groundwater in an area that was close to the rivers Poddle and Li Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

According to Halpin (1992a) St Winifred’s well, a medieval well dedicated to St Winifred, a 7th century Welsh saint, was located in Eustace Street. St Winifred’s cult may have been introduced to Dublin in the 11th to 13th centuries A.D. when Dublin Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

There are reputed to be three holy wells on the strand at Ardmore that are only visible at extreme low tides (Fitzgerld 1856-7, 42). This one remains unlocated. FitzGerald, E. (1856-7) Proceedings – “Jottings in archaeology”, JRSAI 4, 40-49, 287-9 Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

There are reputed to be three holy wells on the strand at Ardmore that are only visible at extreme low tides (Fitzgerld 1856-7, 42). This one remains unlocated. FitzGerald, E. (1856-7) Proceedings – “Jottings in archaeology”, JRSAI 4, 40-49, 287-9 Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

There are reputed to be three holy wells on the strand at Ardmore that are only visible at extreme low tides (Fitzgerld 1856-7, 42). This one remains unlocated. FitzGerald, E. (1856-7) Proceedings – “Jottings in archaeology”, JRSAI 4, 40-49, 287-9 Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

A well is marked on the 1839 and 1925 eds of the OS 6-inch map and described in italic lettering on both as Duffins Well. It is located on the level, low-lying and narrow part (L c. 4.5km NE-SW; Wth c. 600m-1.5km NW-SE) of the Hook peninsula, with the E Monument Type: Ritual site – […]

The early church (ME011-037—-) is at the summit of the mound of a D-shaped graveyard (ME011-037004-) defined by an earth and stone bank. The sandstone base (basal dims 0.7m x 0.68m; H 0.67m) of a high cross with a roll moulding on the angles is in the graveyard N of the church, but a fragment […]

High Cross located in Meath.

Unlocated holy well within the townland of Dunagard, listed by Ó Muirgheasa as well no. 102 (Ó Muirgheasa 1936, 159). Described by Ó Muirgheasa in 1936 as, ‘On the hill of Cnoc a’ Loch, north of Malin, and very near Malin Head, is a small lake dedica Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View […]

Situated at a knoll of rock outcrop on the undulating summit of a broad hill. This is a sub-triangular piece of rock outcrop (dims 13m NW-SE; 8.5m NE-SW at NW; H 1-1.2m) with the apex at SE where it is grass-covered. At the N angle there is an indentation (dims 2.3m NW-SE; 0.9m NE-SW) with […]

Square depression (Wth c. 2m) filled with water, from which flows a stream. Said never to run dry. No longer in holy use. ‘Toberaleen – Tober a’Lin (well of the flax)’ (O’Donoghue 1986, 9).The above description is derived from the published ‘Archaeologic Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer