Ritual site - holy well

The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on poorly drained grassland. A ringfort (WM018-058----) lies c. 30m to SW. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular-shaped feature which is annotated 'St. Patrick’s Well'. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a circular-shaped feature enclosed within a small S-shaped area and annotated 'St. Patrick’s Well'.
Holy well described in 1976 as a trapezoidal shaped masonry well defined by drystone flags. The water is stagnant and there is a blocked outflow channel in the N corner. Well is located within a small rectangular-shaped enclosure bounded by a modern drystone wall. Hawthorn, alder and briars are located within the enclosure. There are no rags visible which could suggest that it has gone out of use. There are a series of irregular earthen banks to the NW and SE of the well. These earthworks probably represent the remnants of a relict field system of uncertain antiquity. Monument is visible as an overgrown area on Digital Globe aerial photography.

Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien

Date of upload: 04 February 2019