Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Gubacreeny, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gubacreeny
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Marshalls Well
- Coordinates
- 54.45656, -8.29313
- SMR number
- LE002-006----
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 1881 "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Towards the top of a rise in pasture. Marked only on the 1907 ed. of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as ‘Marshall’s Well’. It is described as a well which was formerly venerated (Faughnan 1943, file No. 145), and it had a cure for cattle ailments as recorded in the 1930s Schools Manuscript Collection (see this web-page access on 17/12/2015: http://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4602728/4598795) However, the well is not now visible at ground level. The area has been planted as a coniferous forest between 2000 and 2005 (OSAP).
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 September 2008
References
OSAP - Ordnance Survey Aerial Photographs. Photographic collection. Ordnance Survey of Ireland. Dublin.
Faughnan, D. 1943 ITA topographical and general survey. Ballinamore Library, Co Leitrim, (file no. 140). Unpublished.
Nearby in the register
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.