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Kippen, St Mauvais' Well
Well (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Kippen, St Mauvais' Well
Classification Well (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 45337
Site Number NS69NE 2
NGR NS 6525 9504
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/45337
- Council Stirling
- Parish Kippen
- Former Region Central
- Former District Stirling
- Former County Stirlingshire
NS69NE 2 6525 9504.
(NS 6525 9504) St Mauvais' Well (NAT)
OS 6" map (1958)
St Mauvais' Well, Kippen: At the site of the well as marked on the OS map, about 250 yds NNE of the centre of Kippen village, there appears to be some stonework now covered up with turf. From here water is carried some ten feet by an iron pipe, and this discharges into a large round stone basin; the overflow from the basin is in turn carried away underground by a stone-built drain. It is to be noted that the site is only 100 yds distant from that on which a pre-Reformation church has been alleged to have stood (cf. No.171) (NS69NE 1).
The saint to whom this well is sacred is Mobhi, abbot of Glas Naoidhen, (J M MacKinlay 1914) who died in 544 (Annals of Ulster). "St Mauvie's Fair" was formerly held in this parish on 26th October. Other Scottish dedications to this saint are given as in Perthshire,, Mull and Kintyre, the name in all these cases appearing in the form Dabhi (Davie). Forbes (1872) draws attention to the insertion of St Mobhi and St Bean, in a late hand, in the Bute Portiforium as evidence of the restoration to favour of Celtic saints in the later Middle Ages.
RCAHMS 1963
As described by RCAHMS. The name is still known locally.
Visited by OS (RD) 25 September 1968
