Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Lattin West, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lattin West
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Ladys Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ladys Well
- Coordinates
- 52.46537, -8.27779
- SMR number
- TS066-044003-
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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 flat grassland at the base of the W-facing slope of a hill on top of which is located Lattin church (TS066-044001-) and graveyard (TS066-044002-) 96m to the NE. Natural spring (int. diam. 0.9m: H 1.2m) well enclosed by a stone surround with flat lintelled roof with a gate hung on the door into the well, evidence of a circular dry stone wall surround at base of well. Whitethorn tree now collapsed beside well, no other features visible. No votive offerings visible in well or around whitehtorn bush. According to the OS letters the pattern to the well had been discontinued and that the well was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 4). The Pattern to the well was held on the 15th August of every year (Reynolds 1975, 70).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1930 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Tipperary collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1840. Bray.
Reynolds, M. 1975 A preliminary report on monuments of archaeological interest in Tipperary South Riding. Dublin. An Foras Forbartha Teoranta.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.