Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Well
Baunreagh, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baunreagh
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hugh OHeills Well
- Coordinates
- 53.08543, -7.59124
- SMR number
- LA006-009----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In 1601 Hugh O'Neill on his march from the North of Ireland to Kinsale, Co. Cork, on his journey he camped in Glenleitir Valley in the Slieve Bloom Mountains. Not far from the source of the Silver River there is a well known as Hugh O'Neill's Well, this natural spring well may have provided water for Hugh O'Neill's encampment.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 17 December 2007
Nearby in the register
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Field system1 mi
- Ringfort - rath2 mi
- Ringfort - rath2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.