Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Kiltybranks, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kiltybranks
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Patricks Cave
- Latest-edition OS map
- Patricks Cave
- Coordinates
- 53.87317, -8.60473
- SMR number
- RO014-023005-
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
At the crest of a NW-SE ridge. The innermost chamber of souterrain (RO014-023002-) inside rath (RO014-023001-), forming a lintelled chamber (dims 3.7m N-S; 1.6m E-W; H 1.2m at N to 1.7m at S) is flooded and serves as a holy well.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.