Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Carrownalecka, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrownalecka
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Patricks Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Patricks Well
- Coordinates
- 53.63512, -9.22423
- SMR number
- MA118-005----
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In undulating rough grazing land. Stone wall (L 4m N-S; Wth 3.2m E-W) delimits well in a heavily overgrown depression. Dedicated to St. Patrick.
The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 650.
Date of upload: 11 November 2013
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.