Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Corrower, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corrower
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tober Patrick
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tober Patrick
- Coordinates
- 54.06689, -9.07853
- SMR number
- MA040-071----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In a natural, lowlying basin of damp, rush-grown ground bordered at NE−SW by the steeply rising slope of a ridge.
This holy well is named on the 1838 and 1922 OS 6-inch maps as ‘Tober Patrick’. It consists of a subcircular pool (diam. c. 10-12m; D c. 0.5m) fed by a natural spring. The pool has a mud base and is surrounded by willow scrub. The outflow extends to W and SW, partly flooding the ground for a distance of c. 25-30m SW of the pool. Horsetail plants grow in the pool, and more profusely in the overflow area. A post and wire fence encloses the pool and this adjacent wet area. A fulacht fia (MA040-103----) is located immediately to S of the well. A rath (MA040-070----) crowns a hillock c. 120m to WSW.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 28 February 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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.