Christian Sites

SW of Gowran, c. 40m N of a tributary of the River Barrow which flows c. 5km to the E, immediately W of the road leading from the town to Castle Ellis Bridge, in pasture. Not indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map but indicated and annotated ‘W’ o Monument Type: Ritual site […]

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In coniferous forestry, on S-facing hill slope; well itself in centre of small cashel (LI030-09601-) in clearing in forest. Spring (D 0.3m) contained in stone-lined D-shaped depression (1.15m E-W; 1.6m N-S); on E side of spring is flat sandstone slab. Bo Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

According to Ó Danachair (1955, 204) the ‘Blessed Well’ or ‘St John’s Well’ was ‘a small well surrounded by thorn bushes inside north fence of road 400 yards west of Granagh Catholic church’ where ‘no devotions remembered’. No trace of well now evident. Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

High Cross located in Kilkenny.

Reference to St. Brigid’s well in the townland of Graiguenaspiddoge (O’Toole 1933, 9). Reference: O’Toole E. 1933 ‘The Holy Wells of Carlow’ in Bealoideas 1933. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 11 January 2012 Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Known locally as ‘Mary’s Well’, still visited and kept clean. Situated close to the site of the nunnery (KD040-015—-). Fitzgerald describes a carved stone, known as ‘the Greek Stone’ which stood at the well until about 1875, when it was destroyed by th Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

Cistercian monks grange of Boyle

Located in a low-lying marshy area at the N edge of Shansruhaun stream. A pump-house is built on top of a wall with a concrete-lined opening to the S and concrete lintels. According to a neighbouring landowner the site is known as ‘Tobernataggart’ but th Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic […]

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According to Lyng (1959,23-8), ‘To the east [of Grangefertagh], at BLEST WELL (T.9) OF ‘ST.ELEGAN’ alias ‘ST.ULEKAN’ (10), at which you may cure a sore eye if you visit the well, before breakfast;on three consecutive mornings. You may tie a piece of rag Monument Type: Ritual site – holy well View on Historic Environment Viewer

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