Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Mountbagnall, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mountbagnall
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.99733, -6.22533
- SMR number
- LH008-107----
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 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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Referred to in the OS letters as 'Tobar Domhnaig'. Situated at the bottom of a high river ledge. When visited in 1966 by ASI, it was described as a 'broad oval pool lined with with small boulders and split rock' (SMR file). Various legends and traditions associated with it, one of which notes that it re-appeared after the railway was built over it (Irish Folklore Commission Schools' Manuscripts 660, 114-5).
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 8 March 2012
Nearby in the register
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.