Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Donagh, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Donagh
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.31187, -6.91809
- SMR number
- MO007-007002-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
A stepped-pyramidal cross-base (dims of base 0.7m; x 0.51m; dims of top 0.45m x 0.33m; H 0.42m;) with a water filled socket (dims 0.33m x 0.22m; D 0.17m) is known locally as the 'Wart Well', and is in the SSE quadrant of Donagh graveyard (MO007-007004-). It is just E of the graveslab (MO007-007007-) of Phelim Mac Kenna. This cross-base was probably the base of the Donagh Cross (MO007-007003-) in the NW quadrant of the graveyard. According to local tradition the water in the cross-base never dries up and cures warts. In order to obtain a cure people come to the wart well with a coin and asks the well to cure the wart. The coin is then placed on the wart. This procedure is repeated three times and afterwards a coin is left in the water of the cross- base.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 8 November 2016
Nearby in the register
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Headstoneunder 1 mi
- Cupmarked stoneunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.