Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Gubalaun, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gubalaun
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicateed
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.39719, -8.11594
- SMR number
- LE005-003003-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1869 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On flat, low-lying ground c. 50m from the S shore of Lough Melvin. The site of St Mogue's Well lies c. 150mto NE of the church (LE005-003001-). There is a slightly sunken area with some stones visible. According to John O’Donovan writing in the 1830s the pattern was celebrated on January 31st (O’Flanagan 1929, 127), but it is no longer held. (Davies 1946b, 76-9; Weir 1980a, 173-4)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 7 January, 2016
References
Davies, O. 1946b Old churches in the parish of Rossinver, Co. Leitrim. Ulster Journal of Archaeology 2nd Series, 9, 76-9.
Weir, A. 1980 Early Ireland: a field guide. Belfast. Blackstaff Press.
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1929 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Leitrim collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1836. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.