Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Kilmaglish, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmaglish
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Patricks Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Patricks Well
- Coordinates
- 53.58948, -7.33643
- SMR number
- WM012-110----
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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
Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map and annotated as ‘St. Patrick’s Well’. Situated in a small depression in marshy ground at the foot of a ridge. A semi-circular setting of limestone slabs (max. H 0.5m) enclosing a spring well, with stream which flows out from an opening at SW. Some coins noted in the water at the time of the ASI site visit in 1981. A footpath leading to the well from S which is indicated on the 6-inch map, looks like a sunken road on the Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 19 February 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.