Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Loughandonning, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Loughandonning
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Brides Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Brides Well
- Coordinates
- 53.42002, -7.92398
- SMR number
- WM029-021----
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
Situated in a complex of buildings, on Brideswell Street, on the SE side of Athlone town. Annotated ‘Brides Well’ on the 1837 OS 6-inch map and the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map where it is depicted as a circular feature. Well described in 1982 as no surface remains visible. The area where it is indicated on OS mapping is occupied by a small garage. A small stream lies c. 20m to SW and the land beyond to S is marshy. Monument is not visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 07 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Military campunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.