Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Kiltoghert, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kiltoghert
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- The Big Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Big Well
- Coordinates
- 53.97899, -8.03694
- SMR number
- LE027-079003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on the SE side of a NE-SW stream on the E side of a N-S public road c. 60m N of Kiltoghert graveyard (LE027-079002-). It is described as ‘Big Well’ on the 1835 and 1911 editions of the OS 6-inch map, but was properly known as St Toccomhracht’s Well (Blaney 1944). The well is circular (int. diam. 1.7m) with a stone surround and had a pattern at the end of July until c. 1910 (MacNeill 1962, 606-7), but it is now disused in a farmyard.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 19 September, 2017
References
MacNeill, M. 1962 The festival of Lughnasa. London. Oxford University Press.
Blaney, N. 1944 Ballinamore Library, file nos. 124-47. Unpublished notes.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Stone headunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.