Ancient Sites / Early Christianity / Wells
by Ian · Published May 9, 2012 · Last modified January 1, 2019
St Barruc’s Well is today capped and the once healing waters were diverted to make way for a Butlins holiday camp in 1965. Luckily though descriptions of the well survive. Wirt Sykes in British Goblins (1881) tells us that ‘on Barry Island, near Cardiff, is the famous well of St.
Ancient Sites / Early Christianity / Legends
by Ian · Published May 9, 2012 · Last modified January 1, 2019
St Barruc is said to have been buried on Barry Island, possibly at the chapel which was dedicated to him. The ruins of this chapel are on Friar’s Road overlooking Jackson Bay.
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