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Ritual site - holy well

Hammondstown (Ardee by; Mosstown par.), County Louth, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ritual site - holy well, Hammondstown (Ardee by, 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
Hammondstown (Ardee by; Mosstown par.)
County
Louth
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.82128, -6.41637
SMR number
LH018-031----

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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

Situated in a field known as 'Tobar Muire' and indicated but not named on 1865 OS map (revision) (Coyle 1956, 204-5). When inspected by ASI in 1967 it was closed up.

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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