Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Termon, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Termon
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St Patricks Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St Patricks Well
- Coordinates
- 53.97041, -8.30963
- SMR number
- RO006-066001-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On flat ground at the bottom of a N-facing bluff (H c. 6m) and c. 50m from the SW bank of the NW-SE Boyle River where Ath Carpait, the ford of the chariot, may have been (FitzPatrick 1998, 354). A subcircular well (dims 1.4m NE-SW; c. 1m NW-SE) is covered by a D-shaped, masonry structure (ext. dims 2m NE-SW; 1.72m NW-SE) with a cement roof (max. H 1.05m) which is surmounted by a modern Latin cross. The well has a rectangular opening (Wth 0.65m; H 0.45m) to the NE, but there is no evidence of veneration. An oval piece of limestone (RO006-066002-) (dims 0.75m x 0.35m; H 0.3-0.4m) with two natural depressions on its upper surface is set in the ground 3.2m NE of the well and is regarded as having the knee-impressions of St Patrick. A stream runs off to the NE from the saint's stone.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
FitzPatrick, E. 1998 The inauguration of Tairdelbach Ó Concobhari at A(f)th an Termoinn. Peritia 12, 351-8.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy/saint's stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Historic townunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.