Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Muchgrange, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Muchgrange
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Jamess Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Jamess Well
- Coordinates
- 54.01966, -6.14424
- SMR number
- LH009-002002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 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 'St. James's Well' on the 1835 and 1939 'OS 6-inch' maps. It is a rectangular pool lined with large roughly dressed blocks, four or five stones high in some places and without mortar (ASI field notes, 1966). Patron day was held here at start of twentieth century. Various references to traditions and legends associated with it in the Irish Folklore Commission Schools' Manuscripts (657-9), including one which notes that a woman with a disease tied a stone from the well around her neck and as the stone grew bigger she was cured of her disease (IFC Schools MSS 659, 16-17).
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 13 March 2012
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.