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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: St Ninian's Well (Stirling) Alternative Name: St Ringan's Well (Stlrling)Country: Scotland County: Stirling Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Stirling
Map Ref: NS7969093012
Latitude: 56.114653N Longitude: 3.936438W
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 |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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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 |
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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 |
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Anne T visited on 30th Oct 2018 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 2 Access: 5 St Ninian's Well, Stirling: This was just over the road from the Wellgreen Carpark, but we had difficulty in finding this well, because of its rather hidden location. Despite the GPS telling us we were only 20m away, we were unable to find it until we saw the footpath leading to Wellgreen Place at the southern side of the A811 Wellgreen Road. Shame the area is used by smokers, as the rubbish is horrible.
Opposite the well, nearer to the office block is a small set of steps leading upwards to a now very much overgrown garden area. The steps are virtually hidden under shrubbery, and although Andrew had a try at climbing up, it was very difficult and we gave up and went onto our next destination.
St Ninian’s Well is located in Wellgreen Place in Stirling.
An old statistical account of Stirling states that “…. it has been calculated, that, were all the water proceeding from this spring forced into the pipes that supply the town, it would afford every individual not less than 14.03 gallons per twenty-four hours ….” unfortunately I can’t find a date for this statement.
The adjoining site, now home to a huge carpark, was better known as “Well Green” as it was for a long time used as the public washing green for Stirling. The name is still used locally. The very cold water from the well has been found to contain muriate of lime and sulphate of lime (or plaster of Paris) which made it unsuitable for domestic purposes but it was in demand for brewing.
For more information see Canmore ID 46225 which tells us that an old chapel (St. Ringan's (Ninian's)) stood near the well, where all those who died in the plaque of 1645 were buried. The add:"there is no reason to believe that the building covering the well contains parts of the chapel or that it is anything other than a wash-house."
The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) also features a page for this site - see their entry for St. Ninian’s Well, Stirling, Stirlingshire, which gives directions for finding this site, together with a recently photograph, old drawings of the well building and the waters of the well, an image of the 1832 OS map showing the location of the well, descriptions taken from 19th and 20th century reference material and local folklore.
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