Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Errew (tirawley By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Errew (tirawley By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.05279, -9.26272
- SMR number
- MA038-129003-
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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
Located SE of Errew Abbey (MA038-129001-).
This holy well, traditionally dedicated to St Tigernan, is not marked on the OS 6-inch maps, ad its exact location is uncertain. It appears to have already fallen out of use by 1838 when the OS Letters noted that ‘The place of the original situation of St. Tighernan's Well lies five or six perches [c. 30m] to the south east of the Abbey', and recorded that the landowners had ‘formerly prohibited the performing of Stations at the Well’; this resulted in the Station moving to Tobertiernaun (MA038-094----), another holy well dedicated to the same saint, which is located 3.5km W of Errew (O’Flanagan 1927, 183 (359)).
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 26 April 2021
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Augustinian canonsunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - inlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.