Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Mell, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mell
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Patricks Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Patricks Well
- Coordinates
- 53.72524, -6.38151
- SMR number
- LH024-010001-
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 'St. Patrick's Well' on the 1835 and the 1938 'OS 6-inch' maps. Covered over with a public pump when inspected by ASI in 1966.
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 24 August 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy/saint's stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.