Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Estersnow, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Estersnow
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobernoone
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobernoone
- Coordinates
- 53.93443, -8.22861
- SMR number
- RO010-040005-
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 the S bank of a small ENE-WSW stream within the eclesiastical enclosure (RO010-040003-) of Estersnow church (RO010-040001-) and just W of souterrain (RO010-040006-). Tobernoone well was venerated in the 1830s according to John O'Donovan (O'Flanagan 1931), but it does not survive.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1931 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Roscommon collected during the progress of the
Ordnance Survey in 1837. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.