Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Rathmore, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathmore
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Fechins Well
- Coordinates
- 54.15617, -8.56476
- SMR number
- SL026-086----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In densely overgrown ground, adjacent to a road. A subcircular stone-lined well (2m x 1.8m; D 0.5m) fed from S by a small stream which in turn is fed from a larger stream c. 20m to S. A stone step leads down into the well on the N side. There are four other wells associated with St Fechin in the vicinity (SL026-010----; SL026-015----; 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.