Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Well
Straboe, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Straboe
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LA013-005003-
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The National Monuments Service's description
Unlocated well within townland. Reference to a possible well here (O'Flanagan M. 1933, 179). No visible surface remains. In the OS letters it says that Sir Charles Coote in his Statistical Survey of Queens County commented 'At Straboe are also the ruins of a Church and a famous well etc.' (p. 137) The OS letters go on to state they when in Straboe parish they enquired as to the presence of a notable well about the old church or in the Parish, and got no information as to the existence or name of any a holy well ro as one remarkable for any other property (O'Flanagan 1933, Vol. 1, p. 64).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 17 December 2007