Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Drumsheel Upper, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumsheel Upper
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberdrumsheel
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberdrumsheel
- Coordinates
- 53.54918, -9.28530
- SMR number
- MA120-041001-
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
At base of steep wooded precipice. A natural spring, no visible masonry, running into a lake.
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. 653.
Date of upload: 12 December 2014
Nearby in the register
- Inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.