Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Billa, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Billa
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Fechins Well
- Coordinates
- 54.17727, -8.55560
- SMR number
- SL026-010----
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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
In damp low-lying pasture, c. 150m S of the Owenbeg River and incorporated into a field boundary. A D-shaped well (0.8m NW-SE; 0.8m NE-SW; D 0.4m) recessed into rising ground SE-NW and faced with stone (H 1.5m). A flat concrete slab, on which the visitor stands, defines the straight side. Outside the slab, a NW-SE mortared stone wall intersects with a curving wall to completely enclose the well. A series of steps built into this wall allows access to the well. Another holy well (SL026-015----) dedicated to St Fechin is c. 1.6km to E in Kilnamanagh townland. St Fechin's church and bed (SL026-011001-; SL026-011002-) are c. 200m to S and St Fechin's stone (SL026-012002-) is c. 350m to E. There are four other wells associated with St Fechin in the vicinity (SL026-015----; SL026-086----; SL026-151----; SL033-062----).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005).
Date of upload: 18 January 2008
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy/saint's stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy/saint's stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.