Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Cashel North, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cashel North
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberaribba
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberaribba
- Coordinates
- 54.12326, -8.68263
- SMR number
- SL032-012----
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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 lowermost north-western slopes of Knocknashee Mountain. A spring well revetted by a drystone wall and roofed by lintels. There is no evidence of recent veneration at this well. It may be the well which Wood-Martin (1892, 355-6, n. 1) mentioned in Cashel North which had been 'formerly held in estimation as "holy"'.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.