Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Well
Glenletter, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glenletter
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hugh ONeills Well
- Coordinates
- 53.09460, -7.60547
- SMR number
- OF037-012----
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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
According to the Annals of the Four Masters in the year 1600, Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone marched with a force into 'Fearcall', the country of Molloy, where he remained nine days, and the people submitted and made friendship with him, after which he proceeded over the Sliabh Bloom Mountains' (Cooke 1875, 160). Unable to locate a natural spring well that is associated with Hugh O'Neill.
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
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.