St. Fortchern’s Well

St. Fortchern’s Well is a spring in County Carlow, Leinster. St. Fortchern’s Well is situated nearby to the ruins White Church, as well as near Templemoling Cemetery.

Type: Spring
Description: holy well in County Carlow
Also known as: “Saint Fortchern’s Well” and “St Fortchern’s Well”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Templemoling Cemetery and Slievenamon.

Templemoling Cemetery

Cemetery

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Templemoling Cemetery is situated 640 metres north of St. Fortchern’s Well.

Slievenamon or Slievenaman is a mountain with a height of 721 metres in County Tipperary, Ireland. It rises from a plain that includes the towns of Fethard, Clonmel and Carrick-on-Suir. Slievenamon is situated 3 km east of St. Fortchern’s Well.

Killoughternane Church

Church

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Killoughternane Church is a 10th-century Celtic Christian church located in County Carlow, Ireland. It was built on the remains of a timber church said to have been built by Fortiarnán in the 5th century AD. Killoughternane Church is situated 3 km north of St. Fortchern’s Well.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ballinkillin and Borris.

Ballinkillin

Locality

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Ballinkillin or Ballinkillen is a small village between Borris and Bagenalstown in County Carlow, Ireland. The village itself has 20 homes and about 74 people. It includes a national school, shop, hurling pitch and two housing estates. Ballinkillin is situated 5 km west of St. Fortchern’s Well.

Borris

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Borris is a village in the south of County Carlow, with a population in 2016 of 652. The main reasons to visit are for events at Borris House and for hiking in the Blackstairs mountains.

Ballymurphy

Village

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Ballymurphy, historically Ballymurchoe, is a village in County Carlow, Ireland on the R702 regional road. It lies on the western flank of the Blackstairs Mountains. Ballymurphy lies between the Carlow town of Borris and the Wexford village of Kiltealy. Ballymurphy is situated 7 km south of St. Fortchern’s Well.

St. Fortchern’s Well

Categories: holy well and body of water
Location: County Carlow, Leinster, Southeast Ireland, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

52.63403° or 52° 38′ 3″ north

Longitude

-6.85219° or 6° 51′ 8″ west

Open location code

9C4MJ4MX+J4

OpenStreetMap ID

node 13720790770

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=spring

Wikidata ID

Q139100299

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include White Church and Temple Molasha (ruins).

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