Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ushnagh Hill, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ushnagh Hill
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobernaslath (Finnleascach)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobernaslath (Finnleascach)
- Coordinates
- 53.48583, -7.56106
- SMR number
- WM024-060----
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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
Described in 1976 as a ‘fine spring still flowing. It is directly to the W of a ringfort (WM024-063----). At the E head of the well is a limestone boulder (WM024-060001-) of square shape which may have been deliberately erected there’ (SMR File 23/04/1976). The 1838 Ordnance Survey Memoranda records in a letter from Fenwick to Larcom that ‘at the well by the fort is an upright stone about 3 ft. [0.9m] high...well called Tubber na Slath and was formerly a place of pilgrimage but is now disused’ (SMR File).
Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 10 March 2016
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.