Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Bunown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bunown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Lady Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lady Well
- Coordinates
- 53.47205, -7.88922
- SMR number
- WM022-030----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 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 woodland area on W facing slope of rising ground overlooking Killinure Bay on 45m to the WSW. Bunown church (WM022-031001-) and graveyard (WM022-031001-) 200m to SSE. Boat House 10m to SSW contains late medieval punch-dressed stone taken from Bunown Church and reused as the head of a window in the E gable. Dried up holy well (int. diam. 1m; D 1m) known locally as 'Lady Well' enclosed by a drystone wall with entrance at W, no votive offerings visible.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload; 16 April 2018
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.