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Ritual site - holy well

Dromin, County Louth, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ritual site - holy well, Dromin, County Louth, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Dromin
County
Louth
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
St. Finians Well
Coordinates
53.84541, -6.43943
SMR number
LH018-012----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Marked on the 1911 'OS 6-inch' map as 'St. Fintan's Well'. The OS Letters refer to a well called 'Tobar Fiondáin' (CLAJ 1923, 200). When inspected by ASI in 1966 it was described as a circular stone lined well, filled with stagnant water and covered with briars and bushes. Stations were held on St. Finnian's Festival - 8th October (Coyle 1956, 196-8). According to tradition emigrants bound for America drank the water to make sure they returned. A smaller well was built close-by for domestic purposes.

Compiled by: Claire Breen

Date of upload: 4 July 2012

References

Coyle M. 1956 Holy wells in the parish of Dunleer in Seanchas Ardmhacha: Journal of the Armagh Diocesan Historical Society Vol. 2 (1) 192-205

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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