
What is recorded here
St. Mullins Well in County Kilkenny is a ritual site where clean water still rises from the earth. People may have drunk from it, washed wounds or left small gifts beside the stone edge. The well remains a quiet marker of faith and survival in the local landscape.
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St. Mullins Well, also known as Mullennakill, is associated with St. Mullins, an early Irish Christian saint traditionally linked to the founding of a monastery in County Carlow. The well is believed to have curative properties, particularly for skin ailments, and was historically visited as a site of pilgrimage and holy water collection.
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- What survives
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