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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: St Queran's Well Alternative Name: St Querdon's Well; St Guerdon's Well; St Quergan's Well; St Jordan's Well; St Jargan's Well
Country: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 0.787 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Dumfries and Galloway Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Dumfries Nearest Village: Troqueer / Islesteps
Map Ref: NX95597222 Landranger Map Number: 84
Latitude: 55.033499N Longitude: 3.635132W
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5	Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4	Short walk on a footpath
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Greengirl visited on 12th Feb 2020 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 4 St Queran's Well is easily accessible by a short footpath over flat (but muddy!) fields, signposted from the road. Two gates to go through and then enter a small wood to the left of the path at the end of which the well is visible. It is surrounded by a ring of stones. The trees around are decorated with "clooties" (rags) and other paraphernalia.On looking into the well, you will see a face on the metal grating.

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Holy Well / Spring in Dumfries & Galloway

Update June 2022: Classified as a holy well by Canmore - see their entry for Site ID 65680 (St Queran's Well), an entry from 1952 tells us: "This feature consists of a shallow, circular concrete pool, 3ft in diameter, fed by a spring and surrounded by a ring of stones 10ft in diameter".

E H M'Kerlie in 1916 observed: "Offerings at the well include ribbon or cloth on the bushes around the well and pins or coins in the water".

First appearing on the OS 6 inch map of 1854, "St Queran (or Querdon, Guerdon, Quergan or Jordan, etc) was a Scottish saint, the date assigned to him by Butler being the 9th September 876. The well was held in great repute for the cure of diseases, particularly of women and children, offerings being left at the well .... In the first half of the 17th century this well was referred to as St Jargan's".

The last site visit made by Canmore to this well was in July 1965. Google Earth images show a small group of trees at the grid reference given for the well, to the eastern side of Crooks Pow burn, and a circular feature some 200m to the SW of the given grid reference (which matches the photograph in the reference given below, and the photographs already submitted here).

There is mention of the well on the Scotland Start Here website, which has a photograph of the well, and adds: "The well dates back at least 500 years and a survey of the site in the 19th Century collected hundreds of coins which had been thrown into the well with some dating back as far as the 16th Century. The well has been held in high regard as a wishing place where diseases were cured especially for women and children. In the 17th Century it is recorded that the well was also known as St Jardan's Well which is simply another name given to the same Saint. Beside the well is a "cloutie tree". These trees exist around Scotland and many are beside these type of holy wells. A cloutie tree is where pieces of cloth and other goods are tied to the tree and given as offerings in return for wishes. You can still see many of the most recent offerings on the cloutie tree beside the well."
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NX9572 : St Querans Well by rod collier — by rod collier
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NX9572 : St Queran's Well by Barry Dale — by Barry Dale
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NX9571 : Below Kiln Hill by Richard Webb — by Richard Webb
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NX9572 : Grassland by Crooks Pow by Richard Webb — by Richard Webb
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