Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Edmondstown, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Edmondstown
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.90705, -6.62479
- SMR number
- LH013-006001-
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).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Tradition of holy well, referred to as Tobar Neón. According to a local source the water turned to wine on the night of the death of a young man in the area while another source noted that the water turned to wine on Christmas Eve. (SMR file)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 25 May 2012
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Armorial plaqueunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.