Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Glebe (farbill By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glebe (farbill By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.51362, -7.14544
- SMR number
- WM020-128004-
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
Folklore collected from Castlepollard School recorded the following details about St Mignas/Meehan's Well; 'St Meehans well is pointed out in Glon and the Saint's sister's well is in a stone quarry on the apex of a neighbouring hill chiselled in a solid rock and always full of water. Eaumas was the name of the sister and to the well is also attributed the cure of warts' (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0721, Pages 220-1; https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/5009031/4979146).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 15 August 2023
Nearby in the register
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.