Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Kilpatrick (corkaree By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilpatrick (corkaree By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Kilpatrick Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Kilpatrick Well
- Coordinates
- 53.59904, -7.41253
- SMR number
- WM011-074----
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 wet grass-land. Lough Owel 500m to SW. Ringfort (WM011-072----) 240m to SW. Ringfort (WM011-073---) 165m to NE. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map to the S of a complex of buildings and annotated ‘Kilpatrick Well’. A pump house now stands at this location. No votive offerings visible around the spring and no indication now that it was venerated as a holy well. Only the name indicates that this was possibly the site of a holy well dedicated to St. Patrick.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 24 August 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.