What is recorded here
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records St Ternan's Well as Holy Well (medieval). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 10m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
St Ternan's Well is associated with St Ternan, a 7th-century Irish monk and missionary linked to the foundation of the monastery at Birnie in Moray, Scotland. The well is traditionally believed to have healing properties, particularly for eye ailments, and was likely a site of pilgrimage and ritual in medieval times.
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