What is recorded here

Holy well in Errew (tirawley By.) stands southeast of Errew Abbey, traditionally dedicated to St Tigernan. Landowners formerly prohibited Stations at the well, pushing devotion toward Tobertiernaun instead. The lost well may have kept its own quiet life, waiting beneath grass and memory for people ready to remember it.

Located SE of Errew Abbey (MA038-129001-). This holy well, traditionally dedicated to St Tigernan, is not marked on the OS 6-inch maps, ad its exact location is uncertain. It appears to have already fallen out of use by 1838 when the OS Letters noted that ‘The place of the original situation of St. Tighernan's Well lies five or six perches [c. 30m] to the south east of the Abbey', and recorded that the landowners had ‘formerly prohibited the performing of Stations at the Well’; this resulted in the Station moving to Tobertiernaun (MA038-094----), another holy well dedicated to the same saint, which is located 3.5km W of Errew (O’Flanagan 1927, 183 (359)). Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 26 April 2021

This holy well is traditionally dedicated to St Tigernan, a 7th-century Irish saint associated with several monastic foundations in Mayo and Sligo. The well's dedication suggests a tradition of seeking cures for eye ailments and general healing, common at many wells linked to St Tigernan.

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