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Ritual site - holy well

Mullingar, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ritual site - holy well, Mullingar, 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
Mullingar
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Sunday Well"
Latest-edition OS map
Outlined
Coordinates
53.52315, -7.33724
SMR number
WM019-089011-

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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

Well depicted as Sunday Well on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. Located on the S side of Sunday’s Well Road in the historic town of Mullingar (WM019-089----). Depicted as Sunday Well (Covered) on the 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map. Described in 1983 as ‘a small spring by the roadside covered by a mortared limestone well house, the spring confined now to an area approx. 2m by 1m. The water flows out of an arched opening into a narrow stone lined channel and thence down a drain. The keystone on the arch bears the date 1816’ (SMR File 22/07/1983).

Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien

Date of upload: 26 June 2014

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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