Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Meelick (tirawley By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Meelick (tirawley By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.19906, -9.20424
- SMR number
- MA022-042001-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located at base of an E-facing wooded slope. The main Ballina-Killala road lies c. 20m to E.
This spring well consist of a rectangular depression (2m E-W; 1m N-S; D c. 1m), which is dug into the hill slope and faced with drystone walling. An uncovered outflow drain, now largely silted up, extends to E. The 1838 OS Letters record a well 'in the Townland of Meelick, not far from the old church [MA022-043001-] of Crosspatrick, called Tobar-Phadruig.' (O’Flanagan 1927, 55).
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 1 May 2019
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1927 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Mayo collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1838. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.