Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ballynakill, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynakill
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ladys Well
- Coordinates
- 54.15014, -8.36100
- SMR number
- SL027-095----
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
On the NW side of the Douglas River, at the point where a stream emerges from the SW end of a narrow rocky ravine. The area is covered with overgrowth and the well was not located. A secular well, named 'Darby's well' on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map, c. 20m to SE was also not located. A limekiln (SL026-095001-) lies c. 15m to S.
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
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.