Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Cannakill, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cannakill
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Holy Well
- Coordinates
- 53.34210, -7.28465
- SMR number
- OF010-011----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
This well is located just off the Croghan road on the south side of the Croghan hill.
It is currently located in an area of overspill of slurry. The well is now housed in a small concrete house 1m cubed. The water level is approx. 2m below the surface.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Road - class 1 togherunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.