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Ritual site - holy well

Moyvoughly, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ritual site - holy well, Moyvoughly, County Westmeath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Moyvoughly
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.44425, -7.70106
SMR number
WM030-025001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated in low-lying, wet pasture, to the immediate E of a structure (long-axis N-S). Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a well. A bullaun stone (WM030-025002-) lies c. 55m to W. According to English (1968), a holy well named after St Patrick is situated on the edge of the river, to rear of the school, close to a bullaun stone which is known as St Patrick’s knee. Monument described in 1979 as the remains of a well which is defined by a collapsed sod-covered stone wall (H c. 0.3m) that is partly disturbed at NW. The well is choked with weeds and some small stones and still contains water. It is overshadowed by some thorn bushes and a large, dead tree to SE. There are no indications of any outer enclosure or of any veneration of the well. Monument is visible today as a poorly drained wet patch of ground on Digital Globe aerial photography.

Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.

Date of upload: 08 November 2019

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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