Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Crowagh Or Dunneill Mountain, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Crowagh Or Dunneill Mountain
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.20644, -8.87797
- SMR number
- SL018-092----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In the base of the Crowagh River valley, on a broad U-shaped area of level, grassy ground defined by a meander in the river. Immediately to W of the river, the valley slope rises steeply to a plateau of blanket bog which stretching to the W. The well consists of a rectangular, vertical-sided pit (2.4m NE–SW; 1.1m NW–SE; D 0.5m) with a narrow outflow channel extending from the N corner for 4m to the river bank at NNW. Several large stones form a rough surround or paving at the S–SW end of the well. According to local information, the well is known as ‘The Blessed Well’ but it is not associated with a saint, and there is no tradition of a pattern or a ‘cure’. The well was used by turf harvesters as a source of fresh water.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 4 April 2014
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