Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Kilkeeran (kilmaine By., Kilmainebeg Par.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilkeeran (kilmaine By., Kilmainebeg Par.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Holy Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberkeeran
- Coordinates
- 53.55788, -9.15154
- SMR number
- MA121-065004-
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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 pasture, 70m E of Kilkeeran eccesiastical enclosure (MA121-065003-) and church (MA121-065001-). Circular, dry-stone wall (2.5m N-S; 2.5m E-W) encloses a well (D 2m), heavily overgrown. Dedicated to St. Kieran.
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. 655.
Date of upload: 5 January 2015
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.