Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Clonlyon Glebe, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonlyon Glebe
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Bridgets Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Bridgets Well
- Coordinates
- 53.27922, -7.88547
- SMR number
- OF014-019----
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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
Located on low-lying poorly drained land with church (OF014-017----) and graveyard (OF014-016----) to N. Disused holy well now dried up with votive offerings attached to nearby tree and coins deposited at base of well. Depicted as 'Bridget's Well' on the 1838 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map.
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/revision: 24 April 2012
Compiled by Caimin O'Brien
Nearby in the register
- Altarunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.