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Ritual site - holy well

Magheross, County Monaghan, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ritual site - holy well, Magheross, County Monaghan, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Magheross
County
Monaghan
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Tober Inver
Latest-edition OS map
Tober Inver
Coordinates
53.97258, -6.71852
SMR number
MO031-138----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Located on the SW bank of a small NW-SE stream, c. 50m SE of the bridge (MO031-105----) and c. 80m NNE of Maheross church (MO031-035001-). A well close to the bridge is depicted on an illustration of Essex Castle (MO031-034001-) from 1736, albeit on the NE side of the stream. Shirley (1845, 171) records a well near the church, which was known locally as ‘Tober Inver’, but as there was no saint of this name in the martyrologies he thought the saint’s name was a corruption of Fionnbharr. However, the well is more likely to have been named after Finnian of Movila, Co. Down rather than Fionnbharr of Cork (Ó Riain 2011, 333-4). A well described as ‘Tober Inver’ in gothic lettering is depicted on the 1834 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map. The well does not survive, although there is a shrine to St. Fionnbharr.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of revised upload: 20 July 2017

References

Ó Riain, P. 2011 A dictionary of Irish Saints. Dublin. Four Courts Press.

Shirley, E.P. 1845 Some account of the territory or dominion of Farney, in the Province of Ulster. London. Pickering

Shirley, E.P. 1879 (Reprint 1988) The history of the county of Monaghan. London. Pickering.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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