Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Kilcommock Glebe, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcommock Glebe
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cloghree Well
- Coordinates
- 53.60179, -7.81500
- SMR number
- LF022-050----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
In an area of outcropping rock, c. 100m to the W of Kilcommock Church (LF022-032----). In 1837 O’Donovan recorded that 'The holy well of the parish is called Cloghree, which is 'the stone of the king' in English' (OSL, 79). Described in 1976 (SMR file) as a natural unenclosed spring, issuing from under a natural outcropping rock, which flowed to the SW to form a small stream. The well is now fenced off and no votive offerings are visible.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 7 June 2013
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Memorial stoneunder 1 mi
- Memorial stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.