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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Wishing Pot (Minnigaff) Alternative Name: Wishing Well (Minnigaff)Country: Scotland County: Dumfries and Galloway Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Newton Stewart Nearest Village: Minnigaff
Map Ref: NX4132666941
Latitude: 54.971745N Longitude: 4.480481W
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
The Wishing Pot "does not appear on any available mapping but is known locally as a wishing well beneath Queen Mary's Bridge". Whilst a wishing well is an odd site type to be included here, it may be the tradition of wishing has grown over time from using the well water for healing purposes, each time making a wish (or asking for a blessing) that healing results from use of, or contact with, the well water. Use of the water for healing may have ceased, but the wishing tradition remains.
Information about this well has been collected by the Can You Dig It: Lost Wells of Galloway project. They add: "It is a round, deep hole in the rocks about 30cms across, probably formed naturally by the action of the water. Well known in the Newton Stewart and Minnigaff areas as a wishing well requiring stones to be dropped into it from the bridge for a wish to come true. The number of stones needing to be dropped into the well varies but three seems to be a common figure".
If anyone knows anything more about this well, and whether its water was used for healing or restorative purposes, please add a comment here.
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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