What is recorded here
Located on a slight N-facing slope with a small E-W stream immediately to the N. There is a local tradition that a well was associated with the church (WX041-029001-) and attached to the stream, but even the name is not remembered. There is no visible remains of a well at ground level in a pasture field.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 20 March, 2013
Linked to an early Christian church site, the well may have been associated with Saint Derry or a local early saint, though the name is not definitively recorded. Traditions of healing and water rituals are likely connected to the site, as was common with holy wells near ecclesiastical foundations.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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