Moor Park, St Maha's Well
Well (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Moor Park, St Maha's Well
Classification Well (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 43475
Site Number NS49SE 2
NGR NS 4573 9180
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Stirling
- Parish Buchanan
- Former Region Central
- Former District Stirling
- Former County Stirlingshire
NS49SE 2 4573 9180.
(NS 4573 9180) Saintmaha Well (NAT)
OS 6" map, Stirling, 2nd ed., (1923)
St Maha's Well is situated some 350yds SSW of Muirpark. The well-head is of horse-shoe shape, measures 2ft by 3ft internally and stands about 1ft above the surface of the water. A few yards to the NE are vestiges of a similar structure, now turfed over, possibly the remains of an earlier well-head. The well was considered to have healing properties. RCAHMS 1963.
St Maha's Well is stone built and as described above. The turf-covered horse-shoe shaped mound, 8.0m to the NE, measures 3 by 4.0m, and is 1.0m high. A quantity of stones is visible in the sides.
Visited by OS (D S) 2 April 1957.
