Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Magheranaul, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Magheranaul
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 55.29205, -7.33715
- SMR number
- DG004-038----
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 1841 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
This well is dedicated to St. Bridget. Situated at the end of a garden (modern bungalow) right beside the road. Now covered over with concrete slabs (presumably to keep clean as it is probably used by the householders). Described by Ó Muirgheasa in 1936 as 'In Maghernaul townland in the Isle of Doagh is St. Briege's Well, frequented by pilgrims till about 1900'. (Ó Muirgheasa 1936, 159). (Ó Muirgheasa no. 101).
Compiled by Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload/revision: 02 November 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.