What is recorded here
Situated immediately NE of an overgrown trackway, in flat meadowland. The monument is heavily masked by dense scrub vegetation. A rectangular area (L 19m N-S by Wth 7.8m E-W) is enclosed by a dilapidated field wall. The ground is raised (D 0.3m) with rubble and cut by a recent channel, except to the SW where a smaller rectangular area (c. 3m N-S by 2.5m E-W) with an entrance (Wth 0.9m) to the N, is enclosed by partly collapsed mortared stone walls. Ó Danachair (1955, 214) describes it as 'a small well, about four feet deep, with steps leading down'. It was associated with a cure for eye ailments (ibid.).
See attached photo taken in 1954 by Caoimhín Ó Danachair, courtesy of and © National Folklore Collection, UCD. The Photographic Collection, F025.21.00415 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/17068.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 2 October 2020
A local holy well or ritual site; wider significance not recorded.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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