Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Mount Temple, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mount Temple
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Fooran Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Fooran Well
- Coordinates
- 53.43173, -7.78090
- SMR number
- WM030-036----
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
Natural spring well known as ‘Fooran Well’ located 60m to SW of site of Abbey (WM030-035----). The monument was inspected in 1973 and described as follows: ‘A small well enclosed by natural rocks & overhung by some low bushes. A small stream runs out of the well. The well is situated on a slope’ (SMR File). In 1982 the well was revisited and described as follows: ‘a circular depression in the ground. This is now simply a dry circular hollow. However it is the only feature in the area which might have been “Fooran Well”’ (SMR File). There is no evidence to suggest that this natural spring well was the site of a holy well.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 04 March 2014
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.