Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Killaraght, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killaraght
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberaraght
- Coordinates
- 53.92760, -8.35557
- SMR number
- SL047-081----
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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 a grassy verge, on the W side of the Frenchpark-Boyle road and adjacent to the E side of a field boundary. The well, which is slightly sunken below the road level, is enclosed in a dilapidated concrete structure (int. dims. 1.1m E-W; 1.05m N-S). The entrance is in the centre of the S wall. Access to the well is through a small concrete annexe immediately to the front into which steps lead down from ground level. There is no evidence of recent veneration at this well. In 1836 it was recorded that the 'patron-day is the 11th of August, St. Araght's (Athracht's) Day, on which stations used to be performed' (OSL, 233). The site of a nunnery (SL047-083001-) and a graveyard (SL047-083002-) are c. 600m to N.
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
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.