Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Lackan, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lackan
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobercrummeen
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobercrummeen
- Coordinates
- 53.63088, -7.42509
- SMR number
- WM006-064----
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 in wet pastureland with enclosure 10m to NE, penitential station (WM006-053----) 310m to NW, Lackan Church (WM006-037----) and graveyard (WM006-037001-) 720m to NNW. Depicted as ‘Tobercrummeen’ on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. A stream flows out from the N side of this spring well, which may originally have had a rough stone surround. No record of devotions at this spring well.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 2 February 2017
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.