Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Killomenaghan, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killomenaghan
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Menaghans Wells
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Menaghans Wells
- Coordinates
- 53.37493, -7.84054
- SMR number
- WM035-003002-
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
One of two holy wells (WM035-003003-) dedicated to St. Managhan or St. Manchán (Managhan/Menaghan/Moynaghan) of Lemanaghan (OF015-004003-). In the parish of Kilcleagh the feastday of St. Manchán was remembered on the 29th of September (Ó Riain 2011, 429). No surface remains visible of holy well depicted as 'St. Menaghans Wells' on the 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map where this well is shown standing inside the graveyard (WM035-003001-) wall on the S side. Second holy well (WM035-003003-) depicted standing outside graveyard in field 30m to S. On the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map both holy wells are depicted standing outside the graveyard (WM035-003001-) area which is indicated with a dotted outlined. In 1982 the Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) recorded that ‘no trace of this well now survives’ (SMR File 30/03/1982). An earlier ASI report from 1979 recorded that the holy well standing inside the graveyard survives as ‘an overgrown and choked up circular hole, no water and no sign of veneration. The other well (WM035-003003-) in the field has disappeared’ (SMR File 15/03/1979).
Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 05 August 2014
References
Ó Riain, P. 2011 A dictionary of Irish Saints. Dublin. Four Courts Press.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.