Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Miskaun Glebe, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Miskaun Glebe
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- fort
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.08517, -7.87118
- SMR number
- LE021-006002-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
St Patrick's holy well is situated in a natural amphitheatre (diam. c. 30m) defined by an earthen bank planted with deciduous trees on the perimeter W-N-E, which is on the NE bank of a N-S stream. The enclosure is described as a 'fort' on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map and the perimeter is cut by a road bank at NE. There is a modern well, still in use, but an earlier circular holy well (LE021-006001-) is under the rag-tree (LE021-006003-) to its W, and another defunct rectangular well (LE021-006004-) is E of the present well. The well is approached from the E by a path from the public road.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 14 December, 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy tree/bushunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.