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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 673920
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/673920
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.