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Crosskirk, St Mary's Well

Well (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Crosskirk, St Mary's Well

Classification Well (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 7838

Site Number ND06NW 17

NGR ND 0243 6979

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Reay
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Caithness
  • Former County Caithness

Archaeology Notes

ND06NW 17 0243 6979

(ND 0243 6979) St Mary's Well (NR)

OS 6" map, Caithness, 2nd ed., (1907).

See also ND07SW 1.

St Mary's Well, a natural spring whose waters are regarded as medicinal, lies in a natural hollow in the rock and is allegedly the holy well belonging to the chapel noted on ND07SW 1.

O S Name Book 1873.

This spring, still known locally as St Mary's Well, is lined with stone slabs and is approximately 1.0m deep. It is now used as a cattle trough.

Resurveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (N K B) 28 October 1964.

St Mary's Well is dry and in a dilapidated condition.

Visited by OS (J B) 28 August 1981.

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