What is recorded here

Brides Well in Milltown, County Carlow, is a lost holy well now drained and impossible to locate. It may have given clean water to brides, healed small fevers or simply marked the edge of a field people respected. The disappearance is not a failure of evidence but a change of life: the well stopped being used, the story thinned, and the land took back its shape.

The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 According to O'Toole (JKAS 1933, 245) 'Brides Well', reputed to be 'holy'. Field now drained. Not located.

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