Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Kinturk Demesne, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kinturk Demesne
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobernamasal
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.67109, -7.29975
- SMR number
- WM007-121----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Possible holy well depicted as 'Tobernamasal' on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map bit not indicated on later revised editions of the OS maps. Situated at the base of Kinturk Hill on the demesne lands of Kinturk House. Well is enclosed by flagstones and according to local folklore was known as the 'well of the leaking hands' (pers. comm. T. J. O'Meara 29 June 2016).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 29 June 2016
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