Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Cleighran Beg, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cleighran Beg
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tober Bury
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobar Bury
- Coordinates
- 54.13049, -8.01582
- SMR number
- LE020-004----
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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 in a fold on the N bank of an E-W stream at the E side of Lough Allen. This is a circular stone-lined structure (int. diam. 1.2m; D 0.5m) open to the S with the wall beginning to corbel in over the well. It was reconstructed in the 1980s and is accessible by a path from a green road c. 30m to the E. The water is rich in iron, although no cure is recorded. The pattern was formerly held on March 8th and the well was dedicated to St Beo-Aodh of Ardcarn (RO006-103003-) (Clancy and Forde 1980, 7).
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
Clancy, E. and Forde, J. 1980 Ballinaglera parish, Co. Leitrim: aspects of its history and tradition. Ballinaglera. Authors.
Nearby in the register
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- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.