Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy tree/bush
Miskaun Glebe, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Miskaun Glebe
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.08518, -7.87127
- SMR number
- LE021-006003-
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 (LE021-006002-) 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 circular holy well is under the rag-tree (LE021-006003-).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 14 December, 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.