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Ritual site - holy well

St Brigid's Well

Holy well in Faughart Upper, County Louth, Ireland.

  • AccessNot confirmed
  • National MonumentNot recorded
  • 1900In the record
  • Folklore2 quotes
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Faughart Upper, Co. Louth54.05168, -6.38403
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At a glance

  • TypeRitual site - holy well
  • Date or period mentioned1900

Picked out from the Archaeological Survey description below.

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  • No source says it is open to the public.Most monuments in Ireland stand on private farmland.
  • Ask the landowner before crossing fields, close gates, leave the stones as you find them.Visiting responsibly
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History and description

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).

Full archaeological record 94 words

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 at the front of the well face (CLAJ 1966, 125-9). 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). It was also claimed to cure rheumatism and other pains (IFC Schools MSS 670, 8).

Archaeological Survey of Ireland, National Monuments Service (CC BY 4.0) · Compiled by Claire Breen · Updated 17 November 2011. It describes the site as it was when surveyed.

Folklore and traditions

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).
As recorded by the Archaeological Survey · a tradition, not a fact
It was also claimed to cure rheumatism and other pains (IFC Schools MSS 670, 8).
As recorded by the Archaeological Survey · a tradition, not a fact
Healing wells and curesSt Brigid

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