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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 674263
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/674263
NM48SE 10 c. 45 84
Possibly on map sheets NM48NW, or NM48SW.
St Catherine's Well, believed in Martin's day to be a 'catholicon for diseases' and very lately reputed good for the falling sickness, but of which the neighbours were afraid to drink for fear of catching the ailment of which the sick had been cured, from the water, is situated a mile W of Toper na Beanmha (NM48SE 19).
N MacPherson 1878
St Catherine's Well on the S coast of Eigg was a healing well for all kinds of diseases. The priest, Father Hugh, who dedicated the well, 'obliged all the inhabitants to come to this well, and then employed them to bring together a great heap of stones at the head of the spring by way of penance....'
J M Mackinlay 1893
The precise location of this well is not known locally, but it is believed to be in Grulin (name: NM 45 84).
Visited by OS (AA), 9 May 1972
