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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 673920

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NM49SE 1 c. 476 901

Fivepennies Well (? area of 'Cuig Peighinnean': Five Pennies; NM 474 899) on Eigg was a healing well for a person's first disease and for the deformities of strangers to the island.

J M MacKinlay 1893

According to H MacKinnon, Cleadale, Eigg, this well is in the area centred NM 476 901 near the head of a rivulet which runs down to the Singing Sands (Triagh na Biail), but it was not located.

Visited by OS (AA) 6 May 1972.

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