Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Kilskeer, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilskeer
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.69042, -6.99490
- SMR number
- ME016-043008-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a fairly level landscape and on the NW side of the road from Kilskyre to Clonmellon, Co. Westmeath. This well was not depicted on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map, even though it was noted by John O’Donovan (Herity 2001, 17) but it seems to have been defunct even then. The well is marked but not named on the 1912 edition of the map, and it was restored, or rediscovered and reconstituted, in 2008 by the local Historical Society. The well is a rectangular trough (dims 0.8m x 0.6m; max. H 0.85m) with water (D 0.4m). It has a masonry well house built over it and steps leading up to the road level, but the well is c. 1m ground level. (French 2012, 93-4)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 25 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Tomb - chest tombunder 1 mi
- Armorial plaqueunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.