Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Lisnanuran, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisnanuran
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Brides Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Brides Well
- Coordinates
- 53.89601, -8.09842
- SMR number
- RO011-113----
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
Incorporated into a low stone wall (L 5.35m; H 0.3-0.6m) aligned NE-SW at the bottom of a gentle NW-facing slope that has a small wood in a pasture landscape. The well is dedicated to St Bridget and was recorded by John O’Donovan in the 1830s (O’Flanagan 1931, 2, 38). The rectangular opening (Wth 0.45m; H 0.48m) leads to a circular stone-lined well (diam. c. 0.9m; D below sill 0.6m), and it is covered by lintels. It has water and is the source of a stream that surfaces c. 10m to the NE and flows off to the N. The well is still venerated and has some offerings. A low wall (L 3.8m; max. H 0.3m) running NW from the SW end of the wall with the well creates a triangular court area in front of it.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 14 September 2015
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.