Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Aighan, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aighan
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Connells Well
- Coordinates
- 54.64564, -8.38615
- SMR number
- DG098-002001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public LibraryDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1702 "A chart of the NORTH-WEST coast of IRELAND from LOUGH SWILLY to SLYNE HEAD" (Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Described by Ó Muirgheasa in 1936 as 'St. Conall Caol's Holy Well and Leabaidh or "Bed" (DG098-002002-) is at Roilig, near Bruckless, about two minutes' walk from the new chapel of Bruckless. The turns or pilgrimage is made often from 22nd May to 30th June. His feast is May 22nd' (Ó Muirgheasa 1936, 145-6). (Ó Muirgheasa No. 16)
Compiled by Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload/revision: 03 November 2011
Nearby in the register
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.