Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Scor More, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Scor More
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberascor
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberascor
- Coordinates
- 53.86650, -8.26853
- SMR number
- RO016-047----
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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
According to J. O'Donovan writing in 1837 the well is associated with St Patrick who ceased his labours after blessing this well, and the pattern was held on 30th July in the 1830s (O'Flanagan 1931, vol. 1, 126). Situated on a S-facing slope. A spring well is now enclosed and no longer venerated, but a penetential cairn (RO016-046001-) and possible bullaun stone (RO016-046002-) associated with the pattern are c. 180m to the N.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 23 April 2018
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
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.