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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: St Kain's Well (Dunskey Glen) Alternative Name: St Cainneach's Well; St Canigus's Well; St Kenneth's Well
Country: Scotland County: Dumfries and Galloway Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Portpatrick
Map Ref: NW997558
Latitude: 54.856787N Longitude: 5.122078W
Condition:

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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

no data Ambience:

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3	Ordinary
2	Not Good
1	Awful
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no data Access:

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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no data Accuracy:

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
1	co-ordinates of the nearest town
0	no data

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Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Dumfries and Galloway

A. Agnew, in his 1893 publication "The Hereditary Sheriffs of Galloway", 2nd edition, volume 1, page 413, identifies that "St Kain's Well is in Dunskey Glen (name: NW 997 558). The dedication is to St Cainneach or Canigus".

This is the only reference given in Canmore Site ID 60319, 'St Kain's Well, Dunskey Glen'.

I have scoured the National Library of Scotland Maps: 1894 25-inch OS map, and the 1849 6-inch OS map of Dunskey Glen. There are several wells identified, but none of them named. NLS links shared under the terms of their Creative Commons CC-BY licence.

According to Wikipedia, "Cainnech of Aghaboe (515/16–600), also known as Saint Canice in Ireland, Saint Kenneth in Scotland, Saint Kenny and in Latin Sanctus Canicus, was an Irish abbot, monastic founder, priest and missionary during the early medieval period."

Does anyone have any information about this well, and able to confirm whether or not it used to exist, and was a holy well? Do you have any historical documents and/or drawings? If it was a holy well, it would be nice to be able to identify what the waters of the well were used for - baptism, healing and/or restorative purposes. If you know anything, please leave a comment on this site page. Many thanks!
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