What is recorded here

Holy Well in County Longford is a concrete shrine built around a natural spring on a rough pasture slope, dedicated to St Patrick. Local pilgrims visited on the 1st, second Sunday and 15th of August, throwing coins and pins into the water and tying rags to a beside bush. They believed the water cured warts and skin ailments, turning a quiet rural slope into a place of repeated hope and small offerings.

On a NW-facing slope in rough pasture. This natural spring is incorporated in a modern, concrete-built shrine. A signpost indicates that it is dedicated to St Patrick. It was visited by local pilgrims on the 1st, second Sunday and 15th of August (Devaney 1981, 94). The water from the well was known to cure warts and other skin ailments and it was the custom for pilgrims to throw coins and pins into the well and to place a rag on the bush located beside it (ibid.). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 7 June 2013

linked to St Patrick, this holy well is associated with traditional pilgrimage practices, particularly on the first and second Sundays in July. While specific cures are not recorded, such wells were commonly visited for general spiritual healing and blessings in Irish tradition.

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