Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Culleen More, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Culleen More
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Bridgets Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Bridgets Well
- Coordinates
- 53.54949, -7.35230
- SMR number
- WM019-035----
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 in pasture. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as St Bridget’s Well. Kilbride graveyard (WM019-036----) lies c. 35m to E. Monument described in 1976 as a much altered and modernised well retaining water and containing a large circular limestone at the base which has a central perforation (max. diam. 0.65m). Well has been refurbished with pseudo-cross slabs, Stations of the Cross and a Gallarus-style oratory.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 03 April 2019
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.