Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Stackallan, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Stackallan
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tober Patrick
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tober Patrick
- Coordinates
- 53.69327, -6.60877
- SMR number
- ME018-032----
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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 within a gully on the S bank of a meandering W-E stream. Wilde noted that it was neglected and disused in his time (1849, 170) and Thunder writing in 1886-7 also recorded its ‘neglected’ state. Patrick is depicted and named on the 1836 and 1908 editions of the OS 6-inch map. The well is supposed to have a stone with the mark of St Patrick's knees on it (IFC: Schools' Collection, vol. 714, 20). It was recorded as a rectangular masonry sunken feature in 1969 (SMR file) but it had been become obscured by 2019. Archaeological testing (20E0223) by R. Tobin demonstrated that ground level had been raised (c. 0.6m) when a pumphouse c. 2m S of the well damaged the original masonry structure (dims c. 1m x c. 1m), part of which survived with a channel leading N to the stream. Local information records that Tober Patrick was c. 200m further E and on the N side of the stream. (Tobin and Coughlan 2021)
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 12 September 2016
Amended: 23 March 2023
Tobin, R. and Coughlan, T. 2021 N51 Dunmoe Phase 2 Scheme, County Meath. Tober Patrick. Licence: 20E0223. Preliminary unpublished report, IAC Archaeology
References
Wilde, W. 1849 The beauties of the Boyne and its tributary, the Blackwater. Dublin. McGlashan.
Thunder, J. M. 1886-7 The holy wells of Meath. Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland 7, 655-58.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.