Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ballybrennan, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybrennan
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tober Patrick
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tober Patrick
- Coordinates
- 53.42781, -7.46688
- SMR number
- WM032-060----
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
This monument was inspected in 1981 and described as follows: 'On a low-lying area of rocky outcrop. This well appears to have dried up' (SMR file). Holy well dedicated to St Patrick.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 06 March 2013
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.