Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Well
Ballynacarrow (moygoish By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynacarrow (moygoish By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Doyles Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Doyles Well
- Coordinates
- 53.59268, -7.60001
- SMR number
- WM010-011----
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 the shoulder of a hillock in low-lying land. Annotated as ‘Doyle’s Well’ on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. A pile of stones and a lone thorn tree mark the site of the well that was filled in with stone by the landowner in the late 1970s or early 1980s as livestock were falling into the well. According to the landowner there was no tradition of it ever having been a holy well.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 7 June 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.