Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Dromin, County Louth, Ireland
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----
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 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
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.