Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Kintogher, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kintogher
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.31431, -8.50132
- SMR number
- SL008-202002-
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
In pasture, on the NW side of a field of flat, damp ground. According to local information, this well is associated with St. Columcille and is visited annually on the saint’s feast day, the 9th of June. It consists of a natural spring enclosed by a rectangular surround (1m NNW–SSE; 0.7m ESE–WSW; D 0.2m) of concrete and stones. A stream flows N from the well for a few meters and then turns to W. There is a concrete pump house immediately to S of the well. The well is located in the SE corner of a square fenced enclosure (c. 8m N–S; c. 8m E–W), with a wooden gate giving access at the W. The enclosure is thickly ringed with willow scrub and brambles, with an ash tree and a hawthorn bush close to the well at SW. There is a burnt mound (SL008-202001-) immediately to SW.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 23 July 2014
Attached image (SL008-202002-_01.JPG) shows well enclosure viewed from W
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.