Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Monasterboice, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Monasterboice
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.77749, -6.41834
- SMR number
- LH021-062022-
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
Located outside the SW wall of the graveyard (LH021-062002-). Isaac Butler recorded a holy well dedicated to a Saint Kiarnan outside the graveyard at SW in 1744 (Deane 1922, 106), which explains why this angle is excluded from the graveyard itself. There is no evidence of the well now.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 11 May, 2016
References
Deane, J. (ed.) 1922 Extracts from Isaac Butler's Journal. County Louth Archaeological and Historical Society Journal, vol. 5, 2, 93-108.
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Round towerunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.