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Ritual site - holy well

Knightswood, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ritual site - holy well, Knightswood, 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
Knightswood
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Tobermichael
Latest-edition OS map
Tobermichael
Coordinates
53.59847, -7.36844
SMR number
WM012-029----

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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 on marshy land. Toberslauntia Well (WM012-028---) 50m to SE. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map and annotated as ‘Tobermichael’. This is an overgrown spring. There are no known religious associations.

Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 13 December 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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