Folklore and traditions of County Louth

5 sites in County Louth with traditions recorded by the Archaeological Survey. County Louth guide.

Folklore on ErinSites is quoted from the Archaeological Survey of Ireland (or, when marked, from visitors). It records what people said or believed about a place; it is not presented as historical fact.

• Lady Well Holy well · Templetown, Co. Louth

  Various references to traditions and legends are mentioned in the IFC Schools MSS (vol. 658-9), including one which noted that the waters rise on Lady's Day (IFC Schools MSS 659, 171-2) and another that the water can cure sore hands and eyes (IFC Schools MSS…

• St Brigid's Well Holy well · Faughart Upper, Co. Louth

  There is a tradition that a skull lay beside the well and that people drank from it to cure headaches (IFC Schools MSS 660, 340).

• St. Mairead's well Holy well · Toberdoney, Co. Louth

  Believed to have cured sore eyes (Irish Folklore Commission Schools' Manuscripts 669, 2).

• Tober Muire Holy well · Cappoge, Co. Louth

  A station was said to have been held on the 15th August each year and according to tradition its waters were supposed to have risen at midnight on this day (IFC Schools' Mss 669, 5).

• Clochafarmore Standing stone · Rathiddy, Co. Louth

  The stone (dims of base 1m x 0.4m; H 2.9m) is orientated E-W and leaning slightly to the S. The monument is known as 'Cloch an Fhir Mhóir' – the stone of the big man - and is traditionally associated with the death of Cúchulainn (Gogan 1953).