2004:1396 - CLONMACNOISE, Offaly
County: Offaly
Site name: CLONMACNOISE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: OF005-035001
Licence number: 04E1168
Author: Deirdre Murphy, Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd.
Author/Organisation Address: Unit 21, Boyne Business Park, Greenhills, Drogheda, Co. Louth
Site type: Ritual site - holy well
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 600396m, N 730068m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.320874, -7.994056
Excavation of St Kieran’s Well, in advance of its partial reconstruction, was carried out at Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly. The site is located half a mile south-west of the main monastic complex at Clonmacnoise. The location of four monuments surrounding the well was recorded and a cutting measuring 9m by 10m was excavated within the area of the well. Excavation concluded that the well was cut into the natural boulder clay and gravels and that the structure was post-medieval in origin. All finds recovered from the fill of the feature were 19th–20th-century in date and consisted mainly of coins.