Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Charlestown, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Charlestown
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.89032, -6.56175
- SMR number
- LH014-018002-
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
The Ordnance Survey Letters refer to a well called 'Michael's Well' in the SE part of Charlestown graveyard (LH014-018003-). (CLAJ 1923, 202)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 30 May 2012
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.