Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Killineer, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killineer
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobar na Solais
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobar na Solais
- Coordinates
- 53.74615, -6.40163
- SMR number
- LH021-042----
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 as 'Tobar na Solais' on the 1835 and 1912 'OS 6-inch' maps. Also known as St. 'Finan's Well' in the 19th century. According to legend the wells position moved overnight due to butchers polluting it by washing the viscera of animals in it and that lights were seen across the fields as it moved to where it is now. Its waters were believed to benefit those with sore eyes. (Ribton Garstin 1916, 100). The well was closed over at time of inspection by ASI in 1967 but a whitethorn tree was noted and a natural spring flowed into the Barnattin river.
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 19 July 2012
References
Garstin, J. Ribton 1916 The Co. Louth Ordnance Survey Letters, 1835-6. Journal of the County Louth Archaeological and Historical Society, 84-103.
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.