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Lady Mary's Well, Saddell
Well (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Lady Mary's Well, Saddell
Classification Well (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 38868
Site Number NR73SE 3
NGR NR 7890 3117
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/38868
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Saddell And Skipness
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NR73SE 3 7890 3117.
(NR 7890 3118) Lady Mary's Well (NR)
OS 6" map, Argyllshire, 2nd ed., (1924)
A fine spring whose name originates in the tradition that one of the ladies of the MacDonald family was so fond of the water she would take no other. The MacDonalds of Kintyre were the ancient proprietors of Saddell.
Name Book 1867.
Lady Mary's Well is a small spring which issues from beneath a massive rock-boulder. The MacDonalds held Saddell from 1556 until the end of the 16th century when it passed to the Earls of Argyll.
RCAHMS 1971, visited 1964.
Lady Mary's Well (name used locally) is as described above. The water runs immediately into a concrete, domestic water tank, the overflow forming a small burn.
Surveyd at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS (JB) 23 February 1978.
NR 7890 3117 Site identified as part of a coastal zone assessment survey.
M Cressey and S Badger 2005.
NMRS, MS/4040.
