Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Cavetown Or Ballynahoogh, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cavetown Or Ballynahoogh
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberlonaun
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberlonaun
- Coordinates
- 53.93281, -8.23538
- SMR number
- RO010-032----
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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 and 1914 eds. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on the marshy S shore of Clogher Lake (dims c. 1 km E-W; c. 100-200m N-S), c. 50m from the lake. Regarded as a holy well with a cure for headaches (OS Name Books), it was used in 1971 as a domestic water source (Gannon 1972) but is no longer visible at ground level. Crannog (RO010-031----) is c. 180m to the N at the N edge of the lake.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
OSNB 25-inch. Ordnance Survey Name Books compiled in the course of the 1:2500 survey of Ireland. National Archives of Ireland.
Gannon, A. 1972 Archaeological survey of Roscommon. Unpublished typed index cards prepared for Roscommon County Council.
Nearby in the register
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.