Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Carrownlabaun, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrownlabaun
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberybereen
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberybereen
- Coordinates
- 54.11247, -9.05429
- SMR number
- MA031-057----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, adjacent to stream. There is a farmstead immediately to E.
This holy well, named ‘Toberberreen’ on the 1837-8 and 1922 OS 6-inch maps, was noted as a holy well in the OS Letters (O’Flanagan 1927, 110). According to local information, Stations of the Cross used to be said here, but not in living memory. It was used as a source of water for the nearby farm, until it dried up and was infilled.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 4 July 2018
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.
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