Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Knightswood, County Westmeath, Ireland
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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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 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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ceremonial enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.