Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Clogher, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clogher
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Denniss Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Denniss Well
- Coordinates
- 53.79925, -6.23737
- SMR number
- LH022-005001-
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 on Taylor and Skinner's map (1777) and the 1835 and 1912 OS 6-inch maps as 'St. Dennis's Well'. When inspected in 1966 by ASI it was described as a 'rectangular pool enclosed on three sides by mortared stone wall and roofed with double coating of two lintels (one of bottom pair has fallen into water)'. Set into a small cliff edge at about mid height'. According to MacCooey (1930, 184) it was once a place of pilgrimage and also the seat of the pattern. The water was believed to cure warts and corns (IFC Schools' Mss 675, 25).
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 03 August 2012
References
MacCooey J. G. 1930 'Townland Survey of County Louth (Continued)' In Journal of the County Louth Archaeological and Historical Society (Vol. 7) 174-186.
IFC Schools' MSS: Irish Folklore Commission Schools' Manuscripts. Department of Folklore. University College, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy/saint's stoneunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Quayunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.