Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Dowagh East, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dowagh East
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberfraughan
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberfraughan
- Coordinates
- 53.54573, -9.21903
- SMR number
- MA121-097003-
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
In wetland, 20m E of Kilfraughaun Church (MA121-097001-). A spring, emerging from under a beech tree, running into a large stream with other water sources. Dedicated to Saint Fursagh.
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. 652.
Date of upload: 9 January 2015
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Sheela-na-gigunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.