Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Bunacloy, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bunacloy
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ardneevs Well
- Coordinates
- 53.69948, -7.91414
- SMR number
- LF013-058----
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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 partially reclaimed low-lying pasture, to the S of a stream. The name 'Ardneeve' is a corruption of the Irish 'Ard Naomh' or 'Chief Saint', a title usually reserved for St Patrick (ITA Survey 1944). A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded that the well consisted of a deep, steep-sided, water-filled hollow. It has since been filled in and there are pieces of concrete and boulders in its vicinity. Known locally as a holy well.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 7 June 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.