Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Iskaroon, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Iskaroon
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Well
- Coordinates
- 53.59324, -6.79275
- SMR number
- ME030-019003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Situated at the S edge of a fairly level landscape with a small canalised stream c. 70m to the S. St Bridget’s Well is c. 30m W of the church (ME030-029----) and is attached to a N-S drain at a point where it turns W and then resumes a S course. It was overlooked by an elm tree in the nineteenth century when the inscribed stone (ME030-019002-) was originally kept there (Cogan 1867 2, 269). No well structure is now visible. (French 2012, 30-1)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 17 April, 2019
References
French, N. 2012 Meath Holy Wells. Meath Heritage Centre
Nearby in the register
- Memorial stoneunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.