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Ritual site - holy well

Oughteragh, County Leitrim, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ritual site - holy well, Oughteragh, County Leitrim, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Oughteragh
County
Leitrim
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
St. Bridgets Well
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.06440, -7.80447
SMR number
LE025-008004-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Located towards the top of the E-facing slope of a broad drumlin, and N of the graveyard (LE025-008002-). Described in gothic lettering as ‘St. Bridget’s Well’ only on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map, it is one of two dedicated to St Bridget in Oughteragh parish, the other (LE025-009----) being c. 550m to the NNE in Camagh townland. The precise location of this well is not known (Gallogly 1991, 7), although it might be in the laneway leading to the old graveyard where there is now a shrine. It was not involved in the pattern of the 1930s as recorded in the Schools Manuscript Collection from many local schools, but see this web-page accessed on 26/01/2017: http://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4658439/4655797

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 5 July, 2017

References

Gallogly, Rev. D. 1991 Sliabh an Iarainn: History of the Town and Parish of Ballinamore. Author

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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