Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Kilnamanagh (frenchpark By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilnamanagh (frenchpark By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St Patricks Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St Patricks Well (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.89540, -8.39665
- SMR number
- RO009-055----
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
Marked similarly on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated towards the bottom of a NE-facing slope with Kilnamanagh church (RO009-056001-) c. 150m to the SW. It is not visible at ground level. Archaeological testing (07E0767) during 2007 c. 100m to the SW failed to produce any related material, (Read 2010b).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Read, C. 2010b Kilnamanagh: no archaeological significance. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2007: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 413, No. 1496. Dublin. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.