Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ravel, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ravel
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.83414, -6.39630
- SMR number
- LH018-016----
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
The OS Letters refer to a well dedicated to St. Comghall where stations were held (CLAJ 1921, 34). It was also known as 'Tobercoole' and marked as such on the 1865 OS map (revision) (Coyle 1956, 194-5). Not located when inspected by ASI in 1967.
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
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.