Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Kilcolman, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcolman
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.76220, -8.99807
- SMR number
- MA091-023002-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In lowlying damp pasture, located 20m to WNW of a graveyard (MA091-023003-) within which is a ruined church (MA091-023001-).
The well is not named on the 1838 and 1920 OS 6-inch maps but the 1838 OS Letters 1838 records that it was 'called the Well of Kilcolman. At it stations are performed on Good Fridays.' (O’Flanagan 1927, 448 (186)). The well consisted of a natural spring and is no longer in use as a holy well. A modern pump-house now stands on the site, and a field drain channels the water to SW to intersect with other field ditches.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 9 February 2022
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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.