Location
Kincardine O'Neil, Accessed from Main Deeside Road at Neil Burn Drive, just at the end of the 30mph zone.
Kincardine O'Neil, Aboyne, Aberdeenshire
OS Map Reference
NO 595 997
Date
1997
Description
Well; The original -St Yarchard's Well- is a covered spring of which there is no trace. The water was piped to a public fountain, 400yds to the SW (NO 592 997), which is built of masonry, surmounted by a small iron cross; built in the mid-19thC. it no longer functions. (see related artefact). This new well with continuous running water has been built to the east side of the road, opposite the original site; it is named St Erchard's Well.
Related Information
Built in 1997, through activities of Kincardine O'Neil Youth Club under Gruff Kids Project with BP Sponsorship. Organised through Scottish Youth Club Association. Support Worker Jackie Ross. Builder, Alastair Urquhart. Stone Mason, Gregor Robertson of Tarland. This granite structure replaced a hole in the ground where the natural well, claimed to have Spa-like (healing) properties, could be accessed more conveniently by the public.
This is one of a large number of healing wells dedicated to saints that once existed throughout the county. They came under the condemnation of the Church throughout the Calvanist period as did the tradition of visiting them on traditional Holy days, as a result many actual wells of historical record, some maybe venerated before Christianity have dissapeared from trace although they survive as placenames.
Era
1900s
Information Source
Contributer and Aberdeenshire Sites and Monuments Record www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/archaeology/smr/
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- Jim Henderson
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