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

In pasture, on N-facing slope. Spring well, enclosed by low stone walling E->W from which stream flows to N; heavily overgrown. Not in holy use; according to landowner, it was visited in May and cured stomach upsets and sore eyes. According to Dunworth ( Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment […]

Unlocated holy well within the townland of Fassaroe. According to Lynch (1994, 642) there is a holy well known as ‘St Vallery’s Well’ in the townland of Fassaroe that is mentioned in the 1930s Irish Folklore Commission, Schools Manuscript Collecti Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

This stands roughly at the centre of a circular mound (LH004-097004-). Excavations in 1966 indicated that this must have been relocated to this position within the graveyard in modern times. It consists of a squarish granite block with a flat top in which there is a socket for tenon, most probably for a high cross. […]

Marked on the 1938-9 ‘OS 6-inch’ map as ‘St Brigid’s Well’. Covered with a corbelled canopy of stone that was constructed between 1900 and 1924; before this it had a clay canopy (CLAJ 1966, 115). Partial excavations by L. Connor revealed a deep cutting a Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

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

Situated in a fold on a W-facing slope. The bullaun stone (LE035-018—-) is close to a well which is an opening (diam. 1.2m; D 0.5m) defined by boulders (dims. c. 0.5m). No name is attributed to it, but in the folk tradition it was regarded as a holy we Monument Type: Ritual site – holy […]

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

According to a local tradition, quoted by Jackson (1979-80, 157), there was a well in this townland which was believed to be on the site of a monastery. A possible early ecclesiastical enclosure (KD017-009004-), a possible medieval field system (KD017-00 Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Situated on a steep NE-facing slope down to the River Boyne with a NW-SE section of the stream c. 200m distant. A cross-base (dims of top 0.58m x 0.51m) with a raised rim around the socket (dims 0.38m x 0.23m; D 0.23m) is almost completely buried c. 10m S of the E end of Fennor […]

High Cross located in Meath.

On the N side of a road, in wet poorly drained land overlooking bogland to the S. This spring well is enclosed by a small wellhouse that is constructed of concrete walls and a slated roof. It is open to the E and one step leads down to the water. Votive Monument Type: Ritual site […]