Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ballinrobe Demesne,cavanquarter, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinrobe Demesne,cavanquarter
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobermurry
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobermurry
- Coordinates
- 53.61436, -9.23749
- SMR number
- MA118-024----
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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
On roadside, recently restored. Stone-lined oval trough (D 1.7m), enclosed by curvilinear stone wall, WSW to ENE, containing holy shrine. Low straight stone wall (L 7.6m) delimits the well on S. Dedicated to Virgin Mary. Well was visited on Garland Sunday (O'Neill 1982, 46).
The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 642.
Date of upload: 14 November 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.