Ladys Well in Ballyda, holy well in County Kilkenny

What is recorded here

According to the OS Letters (1839), ‘There is a holy well called Lady’s Well in the Townland of Ballyda, much venerated still and frequented on the 15th of August by great numbers of devotees’ (O’Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 274 (92)). O’Kelly (1969, 180) also mentions this well, stating that it is, ‘still frequented on the 15th of August for devotional purposes’.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KK023-075

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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Photo credits

A.-K. D., Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Mike Searle, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Humphrey Bolton, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Eirian Evans, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Martin Richard Phelan, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Charles Vallancey, Rev Joseph Turner (Life time: died 1812 / 1835), Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
Dave Henderson, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
R. A. Nonenmacher, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0