Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Well
Elmvale, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Elmvale
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Brian Borus Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Brian Borus Well (1916)
- Coordinates
- 52.96915, -9.10584
- SMR number
- CL016-100----
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
At the bottom of a steep N-facing slope, beneath outcropping rock. Named ‘Brian Boru’s Well’ on the 1840 and 1916 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps. Referred to by Westropp (1905, 208) by its locally known name: ‘Boru-well’, which was understood only as meaning ‘red cow’. Listed as a Holy Well in the RMP (1996). A spring well rises from a niche in a ledge at the base of the outcropping rock and feeds a large pond (c. 10m E-W; c. 5m N-S) to its N, off which a stream flows to the NE.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Lynda McCormack
Date of upload: 23 June 2022
References
Westropp, T. J. 1905 Prehistoric remains (Forts and Dolmens) along the borders of Burren, in the county of Clare. Part 1 – The Eastern Border. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, vol. 35, 205-29.
Record of Monuments and Places as established under Section 12 of the National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, County Clare. Issued by National Monuments and Historic Properties Service 1996. Department of Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands.
Nearby in the register
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- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.