An architect’s view of Dunlavin, County Wicklow: Richard Cassels’s Palladian Market House on Ireland’s widest square, and St Nicholas’s holy well at Tornant.
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Rathbeagh: A River Nore Ringfort of the Birch Trees
Rathbeagh is a flat-topped ringfort mound on the River Nore in County Kilkenny, Ireland, tied to Milesian legend and a lost St. Catherine’s holy well.
Chapel of St Non: Clifftop Ruin and Holy Well, St Davids
The Chapel of St Non, a clifftop ruin near St Davids in Pembrokeshire, marks St David’s birthplace and shelters a healing holy well where pilgrims still cast coins.
St Winefride’s Well, Holywell: Perpendicular Shrine Over a Spring
St Winefride’s Well in Holywell, Wales, reads as a Perpendicular chapel set over a star-shaped basin, where pilgrimage, healing water, and martyr legend converge.
St Dominic’s Holy Well: A Spring Beneath Truro’s Streets
St Dominic’s Holy Well in Truro, Cornwall: a 17th-century spring reached by stone steps, tied to the lost Dominican friary founded in the 13th century.
St Myllin’s Well: A Holy Spring Above Llanfyllin, Powys
St Myllin’s Well, or Fynnon Coed y Llan, is a Grade II holy well above Llanfyllin in Powys, Wales, tied to a 6th-century saint, baptism by immersion and rag-tree wishes.