Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ballinphull (carbury By., Cliffony North Ed), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinphull (carbury By., Cliffony North Ed)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Bridgets Well
- Coordinates
- 54.43022, -8.45837
- SMR number
- SL002-014001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1869 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Rubble-built structure (dims. 4.8m W-E; 5.1m N-S) resembling an unroofed bee-hive hut, with an entrance on the NW side and a number of steps down into the holy well (1.25m x 1.2m), which is dedicated to St. Bridget. On one of these steps two latin crosses have been inscribed. On the SW exterior side it is surmounted by a 20th century pebble-dash grotto with effigy of St. Bridget. At the NE corner of the well house is a cross-inscribed pillar stone (SL002-014003-).
Attached images:
SL002-014001-_01.JPG Well viewed from E
SL002-014001-_02.JPG Well viewed from N
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 15 January 2014
References
Wakeman, W. F. 1880 On certain wells situated in the north-west of Ireland; with remarks on the occurrence of the croix grammée or swastika, as found at St. Brigit's Well near Cliffony, Co. Sligo. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 15, 365-384.
Nearby in the register
- Cross-inscribed pillarunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.