Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Cartrongolan, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cartrongolan
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Holy Well
- Coordinates
- 53.80577, -7.73717
- SMR number
- LF005-016----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On a NW-facing slope in rough pasture. This natural spring is incorporated in a modern, concrete-built shrine. A signpost indicates that it is dedicated to St Patrick. It was visited by local pilgrims on the 1st, second Sunday and 15th of August (Devaney 1981, 94). The water from the well was known to cure warts and other skin ailments and it was the custom for pilgrims to throw coins and pins into the well and to place a rag on the bush located beside it (ibid.).
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 7 June 2013
Nearby in the register
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.