Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Painestown (morgallion By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Painestown (morgallion By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Trinity Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Trinity Well
- Coordinates
- 53.78382, -6.69804
- SMR number
- ME012-045----
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
Located at the crest of a SE-facing slope. This is annotated as ‘Trinity Well’ in gothic script on the 1836 and 1908 editions of the OS 6-inch map, but nothing is known about it. From the aerial imagery it would appear to be no longer extant.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 3 August 2022
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Tomb - effigialunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.