What is recorded here

Ticknevin Well is a shallow circular hollow in a rock outcrop beside a ruined medieval church in County Kildare. Local story claims St Brigid's horse struck the stone and made the well, while people visited three times with pins, expecting the pins and warts to vanish together. The small depth and unusual rule turn an ordinary pasture into a place where the body, memory and imagination are tested at once.

On level pasture c. 100m NW of a ruined medieval church (KD012-012001-). A circular hollow (diam. 0.4m; D 0.25m) in a natural rock outcrop is known locally as the 'Wart Well'. Traditionally, the 'well' appeared after St Brigid's horse left a hoof-mark in the stone. For a cure, it must be visited three times; a pin is left at the first visit and at the third visit the pins and warts will have disappeared. (Jackson 1979-80, 147). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

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