Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Killary, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killary
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St Tooles Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St Tooles Well
- Coordinates
- 53.78897, -6.66061
- SMR number
- ME012-046----
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 bottom of a N-facing slope and c. 300m ESE of Killary church (ME012-020----). This is annotated as ‘St Toole’s Well’ in gothic lettering on the 1836 and 1908 editions of the OS 6-inch map, and according to John O’Donovan in 1836 (Herity 2001, 46) it might have been more properly called ‘Tober Séacog (Séucog). Nothing else is known about it except that from the aerial imagery it would appear to be no longer extant. Another named well (ME012-047----) is c. 80m to the SSE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 3 August 2022
References
Herity, M. (ed.) 2001 Ordnance Survey Letters: Meath. Dublin. Four Masters Press
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.