Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Clonfad (dartree By; Kilkeevan Par.), County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonfad (dartree By; Kilkeevan Par.)
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Holy Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Holy Well
- Coordinates
- 54.11189, -7.30267
- SMR number
- MO021-012001-
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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
Situated at the bottom of a S and E-facing slope and c. 10m N of a SW-NE stream close to a point where the stream turns NW. It is described as a ‘Holy Well’ in gothic lettering on the 1834 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map and it is known locally as St. Patrick’s Well of the Wart Well. A rectangular pool (dims 2.6m NE-SW; c. 1m NW-SE; D 0.6m) has an arm (dims 3.5m NW-SE) extending NW from its NE end. It is partly defined by small stones. A bullaun stone (MO021-012002-), which had a cure for warts is now thought to be in the floor of the well. The ecclesiastical enclosure (MO21-001----) is c. 100m to the NW.
Revised by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 21 June 2018
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.