A cloot is another name for a cloth or a rag.
Clootie well culloden.
Mary s well but translated means the well of the wood.
This well was traditionally visited on the first sunday in may.
Clootie wells are wells or springs almost always with.
Enterprise or others to the clootie well st mary s well in culloden forest inverness.
Use a gps enabled device to navigate to the provided coordinates which will then lead you to one or more locations.
It is the local custom for pieces of cloth the clooties to be tied to the branches of the trees near the well.
There is said to have once been a chapel on the site.
This is a clootie well.
If you take something from the container leave something in exchange.
Tour the highlands culloden cairns and cawdor 2 to 15 passengers.
In the heart of culloden woods is st mary s well.
When you find it write your name and date in the logbook.
People used to bring rags called cloots here in the hope that it would bring healing to illness.
Munlochy clootie well the clootie well munlochy black isle a healing well at munlochy was dedicated to st boniface or curidan.
The terrain is 2 and difficulty is 3 5 out of 5.
Enclosed in a woodland settling is one of scotland s greatest clootie well tobar na coille often called st.
This site comprises an enclosed natural spring surrounded by many trees within the culloden forest.
In scotland by the village of munlochy on the a832 is a clootie well at an ancient spring dedicated to saint curetán where rags are still hung on the surrounding bushes and trees here the well was once thought to have had the power to cure sick children who were left there overnight.
This is a clootie well the well itself being enclosed in the wall.
We recommend booking clootie well tours ahead of time to secure your spot.
Stage 2 continue past the well keeping left to a fork to exit the woods at a gate.
2 st mary s well clootie well culloden woods iv2 5gu by path from westfield.
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It s position not far from the battle site of culloden resulted in it becoming called the culloden well.
Look for a small hidden container.
In the heart of culloden woods near the battlefield is a walled clootie well also known as st mary s well.
The well is a place where you take an item of clothing or cloth cloot and soak it in the well and then rub it on the ailment.
In celtic tradition you soaked a strip of cloth a clootie in the holy water of such a well used it to wash an afflicted part of your body and left the clootie hanging on an adjacent sacred tree usually hawthorn or ash.