Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Dubhoileán Mór, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dubhoileán Mór
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Holy Well
- Coordinates
- 54.07416, -10.16978
- SMR number
- MA033A003007-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Located c. 20m SW of a cashel (MA033A003001), on a rough grass and heather covered S-facing slope, in the centre of Duvillaun More Island
This holy well consists of a roughly circular pit (0.9m E-W; 0.7m N-S; D 1m) with a dry-stone lining. The opening at top is partly closed with a rough capping of boulders. When inspected in 2006 the well was dry.
Attached image:
MA033A033007-_01.JPG Well viewed from NE.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 27 February 2018
Nearby in the register
- Clochanunder 1 mi
- Clochanunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.