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<< Text Pages >> Our Lady's Well (Stirling) - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Scotland in Stirling

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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:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
Destroyed Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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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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