Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Bunrevagh, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bunrevagh
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Patricks Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Patricks Well
- Coordinates
- 54.05494, -7.96640
- SMR number
- LE024-007----
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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 scrub and pasture on the E bank of a N-S stream, which is c. 5m distant. It is marked on the 1835 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map and described in gothic lettering on both as 'St. Patrick's Well'. This may be the St Patrick's well at a place known as Cnoc and Fhiadh in Oughteragh parish (Herity 2012, 397), but that name is no longer known. An overgrown natural spring had been used locally as a water source, but there is no local knowledge of veneration.
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
Herity, M. (ed.) 2012 Ordnance Survey Letters: Londonderry, Fermanagh, Armagh-Monaghan, Louth, Cavan-Leitrim. Dublin, Fourmasters Press
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.