Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Chanonrock, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Chanonrock
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Patricks Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Patricks Well
- Coordinates
- 53.97725, -6.55039
- SMR number
- LH006-069----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Marked 'St. Patrick's Well' on the 1835 and 1910 'OS 6-inch' maps. According to the OS Letters a station was held here. It is an almost square pool, 1.5m across, surrounded by outcrop and a stone setting. Various local legends and cures associated with it (IFC Schools MSS 933, 128-9) and it was noted that rags, medals and walking sticks were left on a bush alongside, long ago (IFC Schools MSS 665, 175). By 1966 it was no longer visited.
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 23 November 2011
Nearby in the register
- Windmillunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.