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Ritual site - holy well

Lackan, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ritual site - holy well, Lackan, County Westmeath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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