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 indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.39706, -8.11603
- SMR number
- LE005-003004-
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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
The site of St Mogue's Well (LE005-003-003-) lies c. 150m to NE of the church (LE003-003001-) (Davies 1946b, 76-9; Weir 1980a, 173-4), but John O'Donovan writing in the 1830s says that there was a second well called St Caillin's Well within a few perches of it (O'Flanagan 1929, 127). Tobar Callain at Rossinver is on a 17th century list of holy places in north Leitrim (Mooney 1946a, 66). However, no trace of this well could be identified, and it is not known locally.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 7 January, 2016
References
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.
Mooney, C. 1946a Topographical fragments from the Franciscan Library. Celtica 1, 64-85.
Weir, A. 1980 Early Ireland: a field guide. Belfast. Blackstaff Press.
Davies, O. 1946b Old churches in the parish of Rossinver, Co. Leitrim. Ulster Journal of Archaeology 2nd Series, 9, 76-9.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 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.