Sunday Well", holy well in County Westmeath

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What is recorded here

Well depicted as Sunday Well on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. Located on the S side of Sunday’s Well Road in the historic town of Mullingar (WM019-089----). Depicted as Sunday Well (Covered) on the 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map. Described in 1983 as ‘a small spring by the roadside covered by a mortared limestone well house, the spring confined now to an area approx. 2m by 1m. The water flows out of an arched opening into a narrow stone lined channel and thence down a drain. The keystone on the arch bears the date 1816’ (SMR File 22/07/1983).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM019-089011

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