Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Kilrooan, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilrooan
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- RO013-036----
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The National Monuments Service's description
A holy well called Tober Chonnell at Kilrooan is mentioned by J. O'Donovan c. 1837 (O'Flanagan 1931, vol. 1, 68; Herity 2010, 44). It is not located and there is no local knowledge of it. It might refer to the bullaun stone (RO013-024003-).
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.
Herity, M. (ed.) 2010 Ordnance Survey Letters, Roscommon. Dublin, Fourmasters Press