Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Clonlost, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonlost
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Columbkilles Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Columbkilles Well
- Coordinates
- 53.54855, -7.17709
- SMR number
- WM020-037----
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
St Columbkille’s Well lies 50m E of Clonlost House. Depicted on the OS 6-inch map as a roughly rectangular-shaped well. Ringfort (WM020-036----) lies c. 65m to SE. Monument described in 1970 as a roughly rectangular-shaped, open well defined by a stone wall on three sides and by a short flight of steps on the fourth side. The level of the water is c. 1m below the present ground surface and appears reasonably clean. The ground in the immediate vicinity of the well is strewn with rocks and rubble derived from the demolished farmyard. Area around holy well has been incorporated into a large field and there is no visible surface trace of the well today on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 07 June 2019
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Chapelunder 1 mi
- Tomb - chest tombunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.