Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Anatrim, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Anatrim
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Kabans Well and Stone
- Coordinates
- 52.98096, -7.56200
- SMR number
- LA016-016002-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated 130m NW of Anatrim Church (LA016-016003-). Pattern day on 3rd November that was held at the well up until the 1830's (Carrigan 1905, 146-150). A subcircular spring well (dims. 2.2m x 2.1m; D 1.2m) lined internally with drystone masonry at N and W partly covered over by 'St. Kaban's Stone' which is a limestone flag, decorated on its upper surface with an incised circle and two elliptical depressions (LA016-016001-) (Elizabeth FitzPatrick 1991).
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
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy/saint's stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.