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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Cairn Edward Well (Kells)Country: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 3.5 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Dumfries and Galloway Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: New Galloway Nearest Village: Corselands
Map Ref: NX6343073408
Latitude: 55.036370N Longitude: 4.138531W
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 |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Dumfries and Galloway
From the Google Earth images, this well is in the middle of no-where, on the eastern side of Cairn Edward Hill, to the west of Loch Ken, in the parish of Kells.
Information about this well has been collected by the Can You Dig It: Lost Wells of Galloway (LWoG) project, who tell us that this well first appeared on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey 6-inch map of 1853, and "continues to appear through to current mapping (2022)."
Keith Hamblin, the LWoG researcher quotes from the OS name book, which describes this as: "a chalybeate well on the [?] of Clone and situated near the east base of Cairn Edward (Hill) hence the name. This well was much frequented too by diseased persons to which its water had proved beneficial." There is no record on Canmore for this site.
If anyone has visited this well and has photographs, we'd welcome contributions to this site page. Or if you have any information about what diseases the water was used to treat, please let us know by adding a comment here. Thank you.
The Lost Wells of Galloway project is a community project, "setting out to map and better understand lost wells in Galloway, considering how we relate to these historic features now and how this has changed over time".
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