What is recorded here

Tober Duaigh and St. Doweys Well in Ballymartrim Etra, County Armagh, are recorded as a holy water place, though no date or owner is certain. The names suggest a small shrine where people drank, washed wounds or left coins for a saint called Doweys. The official point marks the centre of that remembered site, not a building still standing. A woman may have knelt there in rain, asking for a child’s fever to leave, while another passed the same stone and forgot the request entirely.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as HOLY WELL: TOBER DUAIGH; ST. DOWEY'S WELL; LEGNADOEVY HOLY WELL. Recorded period: UNCERTAIN. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

Linked to St. Dowe, an early Irish saint, the well is traditionally associated with healing and fertility. Local folklore suggests that the waters were believed to have curative properties, particularly for skin ailments and barrenness, with rituals often involving the lighting of candles or the leaving of coins.

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.