The well of St Ternan

This is of course International Holy Wells' Month an ancient tradition recently invented by Freespiral. 
This is St Ternan's Well. I'm not sure if it is strictly a Holy Well, but since it is a spring-fed well, lying in a kirkyard and named after a Saint, I think it probably counts as such. It doesn't look its best in February and so I have attached an extra that was taken in summer, some summers ago.
Saint Ternan was a 5th century Pictish missionary from Aberdeenshire who was converted by St. Ninian's followers. He spent time in the priory founded by St. Ninian at Whithorn and then returned to Aberdeenshire, founding a small monastic settlement at Banchory on the banks of the River Dee.  At some point he and his fellow monks sailed down the river Dee and then up the coast to Collieston where they landed and founded a chapel. The chapel of St Ternan is now long since ruined but a new kirk built around 1800 sits on the site. St. Ternan's Well situated at the edge of the kirkyard was once equipped with an iron cup chained to the wall. As far as can be made out this disappeared shortly before the Second World War. The parishioners would take a suppie of water on their way to the kirk on a Sunday morning.

The landing of St Ternan was commemorated on the 5th July 1987 when the local minister, the Reverend Michael Erskine, in the role of St Ternan, along with his boatmen Rear Admiral Steve Ritchie and James Bolland, rowed into Cransdale Bay. The Picts, played by the pupils of Slains School, followed the the Saint carrying a Cross up the road to the Well in the kirkyard. 

After ‘St Ternan’ and his ‘boatmen’ had celebrated their arrival by ‘drinking from the well’, songs and prayers of thanksgiving were followed by the erection of the Cross. And then a grand picnic was enjoyed by one and all.