Sometimes the sanctity of a place apparently comes from some special event which occurred at that particular place in the past. A temple or shrine is erected in honour of some unique and venerated past event. This is as true of early pre-Christian sites as it is of later Christian ones. Lundy island is a holy place, a special place, one of those places where somehow we can feel closer to god, to the spiritual world, the Otherworld. Pagan Celtic Britain 'Springs, wells and rivers are of first and enduring importance as a focal point of celtic cult practice and ritual.
Rivers are important in themselves, being associated in Celtic trad.
Nor will I call out upon the mountains, fountains, or hills, or upon the rivers, which now are subservient to the use of men, but once were an abomination and destruction to them, and to which the blind people paid divine honour. In Britain positive arch. As in the case of the cult of the head , worship of wells and springs is attested by the three main sources of evidence for native religion, classical, archealogical and literary .'. From the evidence both of archaeology and from the literature of the celtic world there is no doubt that all such places were regarded by the celts as gateways to the otherworld. Miranda Green 'We can then visualise many of the 'temenoi', the sacred precincts of the pagan Celts as consisting of a sacred tree, no doubt frequently associated with a venerated well, over or beside which a shrine may have been in some instances constructed.' .