Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Mullingar, County Westmeath, Ireland
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-
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
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
- Fordunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Water mill - vertical-wheeledunder 1 mi
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.