Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Aghintober, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aghintober
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.95094, -8.00257
- SMR number
- LE031-127001-
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 towards the bottom of an E-facing slope. A well dedicated to St Bridget is an unlined rectangular hollow (dims 1.1m N-S; 0.85m E-W; D 0.7m) with a cross-slab (H 0.66m plus; Wth 0.28m; T 6cm) retaining the W side (Ward 1990, 77). The cross-slab has a deeply-incised ringed cross with a double-ring (diam. of head 0.28m). The well is still visited on the saint’s feastday (1st Feb.). It has a sandy bottom with some water and there are two whitethorns there which are known to have been festooned with rags in the past but are bare now. The well is within a small beech plantation that is c. 10 years old.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 14 September, 2015
References
Ward, T. 1990 A history of Drumsna and its environs. Author. Carrick-on-Shannon.
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy tree/bushunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.