Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Toberultan, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Toberultan
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tober Ultan
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tober Ultan (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.69693, -6.88976
- SMR number
- ME017-046----
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 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 with a small canalised SW-NE stream c. 25m to the S at a point where it changes direction to W-E. The well is depicted on the 1836 and 1912 editions of the OS 6-inch where it is described in gothic script as ‘Tober Ultan’. The parish church of Bury (ME016-041002-), which is c. 2.5km to the WNW, was dedicated to St Ultan of Ardbraccan (ME025-022----). However, the well had been destroyed before the 1830s according to John O’Donovan (Herity 2001, 10) and there is no record of veneration. There is no evidence of the well now.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 16 April 2019
References
Herity, M. (ed.) 2001 Ordnance Survey Letters: Meath. Dublin. Four Masters Press
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
- Font (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.