Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Killyfea, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killyfea
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.98509, -7.73681
- SMR number
- LE029-022002-
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
Located outside the perimeter of Cavan burial ground (LE029-022001-) at W is a rectangular enclosure (dims 10.5m N-S; 7m E-W) defined by wire fences and coniferous trees containing a drystone-built subcircular well (dims 1.3m E-W; 1m N-S; D 1m) dedicated to St Patrick, which is open to the S and still venerated. A pattern with rounds may have continued into the 1930s (IFC Schools’ Collection, vol. 0757, 242-3). (MacNamee 1954, 544.)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 18 April, 2017
Amended; 11 December 2019
References
MacNamee, Rev. J.J. 1954 History of the diocese of Ardagh. Dublin. Browne and Nolan.
IFC Schools' MSS: Irish Folklore Commission Schools' Manuscripts. Department of Folklore. University College, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.