Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Edenmore, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Edenmore
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Patricks Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Patricks Well
- Coordinates
- 54.00325, -7.98552
- SMR number
- LE028-035----
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
Situated in a low-lying position on a S-facing slope and on the E bank of a small N-S stream. A drystone enclosure (dims 1.4m x 1.1m) contains a natural well, now disused, but there is local knowledge of veneration until about 1940. It is in an alcove at the SW corner of a field, and steps lead down to the well. A cure or a pattern is not known, even in the Schools’ Manuscripts, for which see this web-page accessed on 10/04/2017: http://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4649691/4647692
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 revised upload: 10 April 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cairn - ring-cairnunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.