Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Stickillin, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Stickillin
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.85509, -6.50029
- SMR number
- LH017-016----
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
Indicated on the 1938 'OS 6-inch' map. The OS Letters refer to a well SE of the old church (LH017-015001-) called Tober Phadraig. The same well seems to have been later called St. Brigid's Well (MacIvor 1956, 403). Tradition claims St. Patrick struck a spring beside the cave at Stickillin and that afterwards it was called Patrick's Stream (Irish Folklore Commission Schools' Manuscripts 670, 12). It lies in a hollow on the slope of a low ridge and is circular and drystone lined (diam. 1.38m; D 1.68m). When inspected by ASI in 1966 it was almost dried up and an iron pump with a concrete trough had been erected at it.
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 20 June 2012
References
MacIvor D. 1956 'Townland Survey of County Louth' in Journal of the County Louth Archaeological and Historical Society (Vol. 13) 399-411.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.