Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Beagh More, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Beagh More
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Patricks Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Patricks Well
- Coordinates
- 53.95506, -7.66297
- SMR number
- LE034-003001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Located on the W bank of a N-S stream at the base of the E-facing slope of a drumlin. St Patrick’s Well, which is named on the 1835 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map, is now disused and overgrown with no visible structure. Rounds were performed there until c. 1900 and it had a rag tree in the 1930s (IFC: Schools’ Collection, vol. 0288, 73). A granite bullaun stone (034-00301-) (dims 0.8m x 0.7m; H 0.4m) with a single basin (dims 0.4m x 0.35m; D 0.12m) is c. 20m to the NW.
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.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 23 September 2008
Amended; 9 December, 2019
References
IFC Schools' MSS: Irish Folklore Commission Schools' Manuscripts. Department of Folklore. University College, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.