Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Bellurgan (dundalk Lwr By; Ballyboys Par.), County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bellurgan (dundalk Lwr By; Ballyboys Par.)
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.01572, -6.30450
- SMR number
- LH008-025----
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).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Locally known as 'Tober na Grasta' and 'sited where James Rice used to live', in the late 1930's (IFC Schools MSS 660). There was a pump noted at the well in 1967 (SMR file). Not marked on any of the OS maps.
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 13 December 2011
Nearby in the register
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.