Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Knockatober, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockatober
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.82921, -6.43172
- SMR number
- LH018-024----
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
Referred to as 'Knockatubber well' and St. Bridget is suppose to have visited it (IFC Schools' Mss 674, 60-61). According to local tradition it was used to cure diabetes. (SMR file). Situated on a lane which was once the main Dublin-Belfast Road (IFC Schools' Mss 674, 60-61). Not possible to locate when inspected by ASI in 1967.
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 4 July 2012
References
IFC Schools' MSS: Irish Folklore Commission Schools' Manuscripts. Department of Folklore. University College, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.