Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Blakestown, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Blakestown
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.83396, -6.54487
- SMR number
- LH017-026----
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
A dried up well called Cloch Breac (Speckled Stone) associated with St. Patrick. It appears that Smith, who became landlord of Blakestown in 1849, closed the well and built up the roadside fence at this point to stop people trespassing, after the road was improved as part of a famine relief work. He had a new well constructed beside the road. In 1952 the well was no more than a depression in the ground among large stones and boulders. (MacIvor 1952, 265). When inspected by ASI in 1966 there was no trace of it.
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 20 June 2012
References
MacIvor D. 1952 Townland Survey of County Louth in Journal of the County Louth Archaeological and Historical Society (Vol. 12) 253-275.
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.