Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Clooncommon More, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clooncommon More
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobermacleggan Well
- Coordinates
- 53.88875, -8.00666
- SMR number
- RO018-003----
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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 only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and described as an ancient well (OS Name Books). Situated on a gentle S-facing slope, and described as a spring well (Gannon 1972), it is no longer visible at ground level in pasture. Kilmore church (RO018-002003-) is c. 130m to the WNW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
OSNB 25-inch. Ordnance Survey Name Books compiled in the course of the 1:2500 survey of Ireland. National Archives of Ireland.
Gannon, A. 1972 Archaeological survey of Roscommon. Unpublished typed index cards prepared for Roscommon County Council.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Augustinian canonsunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Memorial stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.