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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Our Lady's Well (St Mungo's Old Church) Alternative Name: Ladies Well (old St Mungo's Church)Country: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 6.505 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Dumfries and Galloway Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Dumfries Nearest Village: Kirkbank
Map Ref: NY1477
Latitude: 55.079969N Longitude: 3.348631W
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 |
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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 |
| 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 |
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Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Dumfries and Galloway
Classifled as just a simple 'well' by Canmore - see their entry for Site ID 66646, 'St Mungo, Our Lady's Well', this well may have connections with the old St Mungo's Church - see Canmore Site ID 66665. The name of the well indicates associations with The Virgin Mary.
There appears to be considerable confusion about whether there are two separate wells, or one well with the grid reference number incorrectly reported. Canmore tells us: "Both Walker ('Holy Wells in Scotland',1883) and' Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae' (H Scott, 1917) note a well, dedicated to 'Our Lady' in St Mungo parish (Parish name centred NY 14 77). (This name has not been published on OS maps, although there is a 'Ladies Well' at NY 1191 7529, in Dalton Parish, on the opposite side of the (river) Annan and about half a mile from the old St Mungo's parish church".
Can anyone shed any light on the actual locations of "Our Lady's Well" - both the one in St Mungo's Parish, and the other in Dalton parish at NY 1191 7529. If so, please would you be able to leave a comment on this site page? Many thanks!
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