Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Abbeyderg, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Abbeyderg
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Holy Well
- Coordinates
- 53.63353, -7.79947
- SMR number
- LF018-064----
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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
At the base of a S-facing hillside adjacent to an E–W valley floor. This well is depicted on the Down Survey (1655-6) map of Taghsheenode and Moydow parishes where it is annotated 'a well & Elme Tree' (NLI MS 719). It comprises a circular well (ext. diam. 2.7m) enclosed by a wall of roughly coursed drystone masonry (max. H 1.15m; Wth 0.62m) to which concrete has been applied in places. Water flowing from a small opening at SSW feeds a small stream.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 7 June 2013
Nearby in the register
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.