Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Rathfeigh, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathfeigh
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.59011, -6.48801
- SMR number
- ME032-059002-
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 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
A natural spring, marked by a lone thorn bush, located in a boggy hollow in a field of pasture. Known locally as 'Lady's well' and located alongside a mass-rock (ME032-059001-) (pers. comm. Rathfeigh Historical Society).
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 11 December 2013
Nearby in the register
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - inlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.