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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Our Lady''s Well (Stirling) Alternative Name: Whiskey Well (Stirling); Whusky Well (Stirling)Country: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 0.347 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Stirling Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Stirling
Map Ref: NS79329454
Latitude: 56.128280N Longitude: 3.943076W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
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Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Stirling
Details of this now destroyed holy well can be found on The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) - see their entry for Our Lady’s Well, Stirling, Stirlingshire, which has an 1898 drawing of the well, together with a brief archaeology & history, which quotes from a couple of 19th century sources.
TNA adds: "Thankfully the local writer J.S. Fleming’s (1898) talked about the well in his fine work, where he told: 'This Well is situated at the foot of the Gowan Hills, and adjacent to the skating pond, as shown in (the) sketch. Though part of the waters of this Well have been abstracted, and led, by means of a pipe, to a neighbouring factory, it still gives off a considerable flow of water. The local name, 'Whusky Well' is supposed to be given this Well on account of the virtues of its waters for mixing with whisky, without any perceptible deterioration of the latter. We can find no allusion to this Well in any of the Burgh Records, and Dr. Rogers gives no reason for its dedication to the Virgin Mary. We do know, however, that 'St. James’s Chapel of the Crag' was situated only 200 or 300 yards distant, and is referred to frequently as receiving alms from King James IV, especially on 26th July, 1496, of 14s."
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