Sunday Well

Ó Danachair (1955, 213) recorded the following details about Sunday Well; ' "Sunday's Well" on 1840 map. This well was filled in about 1880. A large elm tree grows at the site of the well, which is in a farmyard. Embedded in the roots of the tree is an upright slab inscribed "IHS 1760 THOMAS BANKS" said to have been erected by a man who was cured of blindness here. There are stations performed here by the peasantry on Sundays' (OSNB). See attached photos taken in 1954 by Caoimhín Ó Danachair, courtesy of and © National Folklore Collection, UCD. The Photographic Collection, F025.21.00210 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/17002 and F025.21.00211 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/31114. Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 3 October 2020

Linked to Saint Sunday, the well was historically visited for its supposed healing properties, particularly for skin ailments. The site's association with a saint and its depiction on 19th-century maps suggest it was a place of local pilgrimage and religious observance before being filled in during the 1880s.