Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Paughanstown (ardee By; Kildemmock Par.), County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Paughanstown (ardee By; Kildemmock Par.)
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Trinity Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Trinity Well
- Coordinates
- 53.83309, -6.48899
- SMR number
- LH017-038001-
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
Marked on the 1835 and 1938 'OS 6-inch' maps as 'Trinity Well'. The OS Letters refer to a formal station here on Trinity Sunday in the mid-nineteenth century (CLAJ 1929, 54). Described in 1967 (ASI field notes) as an 'irregular small pool, lined with small boulders which face the cavity in the ground. It has a modern stone lintelled roof laid on iron fragments (of a bed). An irregular path of stone steps lead down to well.' Various traditions and legends associated with it. St. Patrick is believed to have visited it and the marks of his feet are said to be left on a stone (IFC Schools' Mss 669, 4). It was also believed that the first person to draw water from it on Christmas Eve would find it had turned into wine (ibid). A bullaun stone (LH017-038002) lies beside it.
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 20 June 2012
References
IFC Schools' MSS: Irish Folklore Commission Schools' Manuscripts. Department of Folklore. University College, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.