Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Faughart Upper, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Faughart Upper
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- St Brigids Well
- Coordinates
- 54.05168, -6.38403
- SMR number
- LH004-097007-
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 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Marked on the 1938-9 'OS 6-inch' map as 'St Brigid's Well'. Covered with a corbelled canopy of stone that was constructed between 1900 and 1924; before this it had a clay canopy (CLAJ 1966, 115). Partial excavations by L. Connor revealed a deep cutting at the front of the well face (CLAJ 1966, 125-9). There is a tradition that a skull lay beside the well and that people drank from it to cure headaches (IFC Schools MSS 660, 340). It was also claimed to cure rheumatism and other pains (IFC Schools MSS 670, 8).
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 17 November 2011
References
Condit, T. and Buckley, V. 2007 Faughart, Co. Louth - the hill of heroes, saints, battles and boundaries. Archaeology Ireland. Heritage Guide No. 37.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Round towerunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.