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Struell Wells
Struell Wells ((アイルランド語:Toibreacha an tSruthail); Ulster-Scots: ''Struell Waals'')〔(Inch Abbey – Ulster-Scots translation ) DOE. Retrieved 16 September 2011.〕 are a set of four holy wells in the townland of Struell, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) east of Downpatrick, County Down, Northern Ireland (grid ref: J513442). The wells date from before the time of Saint Patrick, and even today are used for people seeking cures. On Mid-Summer Eve (St John's Eve) and the Friday before Lammas, hundreds of pilgrims used to visit Struell. The earliest written reference to the wells is in 1306, but none of the surviving buildings is earlier than about 1600. Pilgrimages to the site are well documented from the 16th century to the 19th century.〔 The site is managed by the Northern Ireland Environment Agency.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=Saoirse32 (19 February 2006) )〕
==Features==
A fast flowing stream runs in a south-easterly direction, partly underground, through the secluded, rocky valley, along which is ranged five buildings. The stream (in Irish ''sruthar'') (or ''sruthail'') gives the site its name. Farthest north-west is the shell of a mid-18th century church, apparently never finished. This must have replaced an earlier church, as a chapel was listed here in the 1306 taxation roll.〔 In 1957 some fragments of 13th century stone windows were found, and probably belonged to this chapel. They can now be seen built into the field wall next to the Drinking Well. Two of the four wells, set in a grassy hollow, are covered by small corbelled stone buildings, the others by larger stone structures. The Drinking Well, or Mother Well, is beehive-shaped and near the old church with a domed vault on wicker centring. The Eye Well is in the centre of the site, rectangular and with a pyramidal corbelled roof. To the south-east the stone roofed Men's Bathing Well (Men's Bath House) has a dressing room with seats leading to the bath room with its rectangular, sunken tank, which is reached by steps and filled with water supplied at floor level by a stone channel. There was a movable sluice to control the water flow out of the bath. A third room, at a lower level and with its own entrance, also with seats, served as dressing room to the adjoining Women's Bathing Well (Women's Bath House), now roofless.〔〔 Here the water enters from a high level and the women must have had drenches rather than baths. The water leaves the bathhouse through a drain in the opposite wall.〔 The smaller wells were used for bathing particular parts of the body, e.g. eyes, head, limbs etc., and a Foot Well is sometimes mentioned. In the larger wells the whole body was bathed. The bath houses now covering these wells are quite old, but were repaired by Lady Betty Cromwell in the 17th century.〔
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