Struell Wells

Struell Wells was a popular place of pilgrimage from the sixteenth century until the 1840s. The Wells were once pagan places of worship but are now strongly associated with Saint Patrick. There are four wells (once famed throughout Europe as a bath house, drinking well and eye well, said to have been blessed by Saint Patrick), with water running through underground channels which are located in a secluded rocky valley, beside the ruins of a chapel dedicated to Saint Patrick. Harris writing in 1774, states "vast throngs of rich and poor resort on Midsummer Eve and the Friday before Lammas, some in hopes of obtaining health and others to perform penances".