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Check out our new field kit and survival kit guides. Our eight step recording guide will help you document any new Holy Wells you may discover.
When searching for a Holy Well you can search by county here. You can also look for a well by name by using our database search facility here.
Slaine always welcomes any help you can give us in recording and preserving the holy wells and sacred springs of Ireland.
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- Always try to discover who the landowner is before you enter a farmer's field, and if possible ask permission. They may also be an excellent source of information on the well and its history, or even know who you could ask locally.
- If you cannot find the landowner, ask at a local house, and they will usually direct you.
- Always explain what you are doing and why. Generally people, especially the older generation, will be very interested in the project and be only too glad to give you information or pass on old local tales about their well.
- If there is a local Heritage Centre or Local Study Centre anywhere near the well it is often worth stopping and asking about the wells you are hunting. They may save you a lot of legwork.
- FAS are often involved with well restoration work, so contacting your local branch might yield extra information, not only on its history, but also if they plan to do any work in the near future on the well you are hunting.
- Remember to close all gates when you enter a field, even if you cannot see any livestock.
- Remember to say "thank you" to the water in some way when you visit the well. You could leave a coin, a small gift or tie a rag onto an adjoining tree. Even sing to the well if you wish, or play it some music.
- Other than your small token offering, leave only footsteps, and take only pictures.
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Past Articles
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Saturday, March 19
St Mogue's Well at Historic Ferns, County Wexford (0)
Tuesday, March 01
St Patrick's Well, Nassau St, Dublin (7)
Monday, February 28
Creation and Destruction - St Boden's Well (52)
Wednesday, February 23
Vandalism (129)
Thursday, February 10
Top Notch Well in Doonass, Co. Clare (121)
Wednesday, February 02
Tober Curnan, or St Senan's Well, Clonlea Lough, near Kilkishen, County Clare (70)
St Flannan's Well, Killaloe, Co Clare (8)
Tuesday, February 01
Unusual Holy Wells in County Mayo (117)
Tuesday, January 18
Howard?s Well, Kilmihil, County Clare (93)
Wednesday, December 29
Mountain and Hilltop Springs and Sacred Wells (18)
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