What is recorded here

Friar's Well hides in Tom Kearney's field, feeding a forgotten church called Kilmog. The gravel pit still marks the shrine beside a bullaun stone and lost holy tree, while the racecourse and Kilkenny-Kells road have swallowed the wider landscape. Water may still move through that field, carrying prayers older than the ownership, the survey or the name.

Under the heading 'The Racecourse or Kilmog, Cill Mo Aodhóg, Church of Mogue', O'Kelly (1969, 183) refers to, 'a tradition of an ancient church and the Friar's Well is in Tom Kearney's field'. Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 392-3) locates the church of Kilmog (KK023-009003-) to the gravel pit which is indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and the 1947 revision immediately S of a bullaun stone (KK023-009001-) and former holy tree (KK023-009002-) and running along the W side of the Kilkenny - Kells road. The name of the well referred to by O'Kelly suggests that it may have been a holy well. The precise location of Friar's Well is unknown. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 1 June 2021

Linked to a tradition of an ancient church and a friar, the well is associated with local religious practices, possibly connected to Saint Mogue (Mo Aodhóg), a 7th-century Irish saint known for founding monastic sites in the region. The well may have been used for holy water or healing rituals, as was common with many early Christian wells in Ireland.

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