spring-well

He mended her fences and he cleaned her spring-well; he ground her corn and he brought back her swarm of bees; he trained a dog to chase the crows out of her field; he had the ass shod, the sheep washed and the goat spancelled.

The King of Ireland's Son Padraic Colum 1926

She's quiet now and easy; but the day Michael was drowned you could hear her crying out from this to the spring-well.

The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays Eugene O'Neill 1920

I went down to the spring-well, and I stood there saying

The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays Eugene O'Neill 1920

Now, Fin says there's a fine spring-well somewhere under the rocks behind the hill here below, and it was his intention to pull them asunder; but having heard of you, he left the place in such a fury, that he never thought of it.

Celtic Fairy Tales Joseph Jacobs 1885

The bowl is filled with water from a spring-well, after which twenty-six pieces of white paper about an inch square, on each of which must be written one letter of the alphabet, are placed in the bowl with the letters turned downward.

Current Superstitions Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk William Wells Newell 1873

From this it will easily be seen, in the first place, that it would be with a fight that his master would get him off, by obliging the corporal to take back the trepan money; in the second place, how long a date back it is since the Eirish began to be the death of us; and, in conclusion, that my honoured faither got such a fleg, as to spain him effectually, for the space of ten years, from every drinkable stronger than good spring-well water.

The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824

From this it will easily be seen, in the first place, that it would be with a fight that his master would get him off, by obliging the corporal to take back the trepan money; in the second place, how long a date back it is since the Eirish began to be the death of us; and, in conclusion, that my honoured faither got such a fleg, as to spain him effectually, for the space of ten years, from every drinkable stronger than good spring-well water.

The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824

There aren't many, but sometimes a griffin and a unicorn will meet at a love spring-well, I don't know what happens, but men we have alicorns. "

Demons Don't Dream Anthony, Piers 1993