Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Kilfeacle, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilfeacle
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Patricks Well
- Coordinates
- 52.90916, -7.10533
- SMR number
- LA025-032----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 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
Not marked on the 1841 edition of the OS 6-inch map. In wet marshy land. A shallow pool of water marks the site. A subcircular area (D 0.5m, Wth 0.8m N-S x 1m E-W) enclosed by a modern stone wall at N, E and S with slab to knee on at entrance at W. According to local information it was thought that the water from it could heal only sight ailments.
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
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.