Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Cloonagh (carbury By.), County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonagh (carbury By.)
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Molaisses Well
- Coordinates
- 54.36768, -8.62798
- SMR number
- SL004-006----
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 1869 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Marked on the 1837 and 1912 editions of the OS 6-inch map. Situated on a NE-facing slope a short distance above Sligo Bay. Spring well now housed within a modern cement-built structure. There are a number of legends concerning St. Molaise associated with the monument (ITA Survey 1942-4).
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 17 April 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Seaweed standunder 1 mi
- Seaweed standunder 1 mi
- Seaweed standunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.