Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Knocknagartan, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocknagartan
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Patricks Wells
- Coordinates
- 53.80860, -7.07630
- SMR number
- CV043-023001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Marked on all OS eds. The NW well is a small subrectangular spring well, open at SE and lined on three sides with stone and on the fourth with natural rock. A second well lies 10m to SE. This is a large, shallow pool faced with drystone masonry and natural rock. A nearby outcrop called Carraig Crom may refer to the mythological pre-Christian idol Crom Cruaich (local information).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.