Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Drumshanbo South, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumshanbo South
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Holy Well
- Coordinates
- 53.86900, -7.78905
- SMR number
- LE036-039----
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 at the E edge of a bog, at its junction with pasture and c. 150m W of a N-S public road. A well is depicted at the W end of an E-W bog road only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described as a ‘Holy Well’. It was described in the 1930s as round hole in the bog with a cure for warts if visits were made on Monday, Thursday and Friday, but no name was forthcoming (IFC: Schools’ Collection, vol. 0222, 481). The well is not visible now at ground level or known locally.
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: 7 January 2020
References
IFC Schools' MSS: Irish Folklore Commission Schools' Manuscripts. Department of Folklore. University College, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - portal tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.