Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Bobsville, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bobsville
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.71519, -7.06927
- SMR number
- ME015-056011-
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
Situated on a fairly level landscape. St. Kevin’s Well, which was restored in 1990, is across the road to the SW of the site of St. Caomhán's early church that became the medieval parish church of Diamor (ME015-056001-). It is a D-shaped corbelled structure (dims 1.15m x 0.9m; H 1.2m) c. 1m below the level of the road and it is the origin of a stream that flows off to the SW. Six steps lead down from the road to a cemented area (dims 2.6m NW-SE; 1.15-1.8m NE-SW) over the stream, and there is a young rag tree where the stream emerges from this patio. This is a replacement for an old ash tree that fell in 1971 (Moore and Kenny 1976, 33). The well is said to have cure for warts. No pattern is held at it presently, although the pattern day is 14th September (French 2012, 89).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 11 September, 2018
References
Moore, B. F. E. and Kenny, M. 1976 Tombstones in Clonabreany graveyard. Ríocht na Midhe, 6, 2, 16-36.
French, N. 2012 Meath Holy Wells. Meath Heritage Centre
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy tree/bushunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.