Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Sheetrim (monaghan By; Monaghan Par.), County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sheetrim (monaghan By; Monaghan Par.)
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.22134, -6.96623
- SMR number
- MO013-043----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located on a S facing hillock with good views. A well called Tubberdoany in Monaghan parish and its attendant rag-tree was resorted to for cures according to a manuscript of c. 1815 quoted by John O’Donovan (Herity 2012, 175), and the well is also mentioned by Coote (1801, 181). 'Tober Domhnaig' at Sheetrim is also known in the folk record (IFC Schools’ MSS: (958) 43-4: https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes ). The location is known locally and is said to have been closed in the 1800's. The remaining bushes and stones associated with it were removed in the mid 1990's.
Date of revision: 23 February 2013
References
IFC Schools' MSS: Irish Folklore Commission Schools' Manuscripts. Department of Folklore. University College, Dublin.
Coote, C. 1801 Statistical survey of the county of Monaghan. Dublin. Graisberry and Campbell.
Herity, M. (ed.) 2012 Ordnance Survey Letters: Londonderry, Fermanagh, Armagh-Monaghan, Louth, Cavan-Leitrim. Dublin, Fourmasters Press
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- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.