Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Well
Sheepwalk, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sheepwalk
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Danes Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Danes Well
- Coordinates
- 53.88722, -8.45946
- SMR number
- RO015-001----
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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 ed. of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as 'Dane's Well', and situated on a flat low-lying landscape. This is a rectangular well (dims 0.8m x 0.8m; D 1.5m) enclosed in concrete and now dry within a rectangular enclosure (dims 10.5m NW-SE; 7.7m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank. There is no evidence of or knowledge of veneration.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.