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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 728891

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/728891

NX97NE 65 9730 7576.

(NX 9730 7576) St Allan's Wells (NAT)

OS 1:1056 map (1852)

Three good spring wells, which supply water to the southern side of Dumfries; they are noted for the purity of their water. A small chapel, called St Allan's on the Brae, is traditionally said to have stood nearby, but no trace of it now remains and its site cannot be pointed out.

Name Book 1850

St Allan's Well, or The Three Wells, was beside Mill Burn, at the foot of a lane on the south side of St Michael's Street. It consisted of three basins each backed by an arched recess, all built of dressed stone. Allan was a native of Galloway who became Bishop of the Isles and one of the Scots clergy who recognised Bruce's title to the crown in 1309.

R Morris and F Morris 1982.

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