Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Marshes Upper, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Marshes Upper
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ladys Well (Disused)
- Coordinates
- 53.99354, -6.40232
- SMR number
- LH007-114----
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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)
- 1799 · 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 on the 1835 'OS 6-inch' map as 'Lady's Well' and on the 1938/9 edition as 'Lady's Well (Disused)'. Patron was held here on 9th September each year. It is covered by a small rectangular structure with a gabled roof. Above the doorway is an alcove containing a statue of the Madonna and surmounting this at the point of the gable is a stone cross. Steps lead down to the well and it is situated within a railed rectangular enclosure with stations of the cross on three sides. (SMR file).
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 23 November 2011
Nearby in the register
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.