Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Inscribed stone
Rosserk, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rosserk
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.16880, -9.14451
- SMR number
- MA022-083002-
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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
At a holy well (MA022-083001), built into the S gable of the stone-built well house.
According to the 1838 OS Letters (O’Flanagan 1927, 86), this 17th-century inscribed stone was already at the well prior to the construction of the well house in 1789, when it was incorporated into the facade. The Latin inscription is dedicated to the Most Blessed Virgin, who according to tradition appeared at the well, and it states that the stone was commissioned in 1684 by Father Moriartus Crehn.
The inscription is now partly effaced and difficult to read; the 1838 OS Letters record it as follows:
In honorum Dei omnipotentis. Beatifsimae Virginis
Sine labe concepta et omnium santctorum celestis
Curia me fieri fecit Pater Moriartus Crehn
Aug + 30 + 1684
Attached image:
MA022-083002-_01.JPG
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 7 May 2019
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1927 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Mayo collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1838. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.