Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Well
Rathowen, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathowen
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fooraun Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Fooraun Well
- Coordinates
- 53.65242, -7.53238
- SMR number
- WM006-016----
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
Situated on low lying marshy land which rises to the N and E. Depicted as ‘Fooraun Well’ on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. A rectangular-shaped hole containing stagnant water with a heavy growth of rushes and reeds, enclosed by a barbed-wire fence. An overgrown stream runs SE from the well.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 26 January 2017
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.