Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Building
Tully (castlereagh By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tully (castlereagh By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.81632, -8.41262
- SMR number
- RO021-022005-
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
On a shelf towards the bottom of a S-facing slope overlooking a bog to the SE, and c. 20m N of church (RO021-022008-), which is on the other (S) side of the NE-SW Bellanagare to Castlerea road. Knox (1902c, 188-9) mentions a building with cyclopean masonry on the N side of the penitential cairn (RO021-022004-), which cannot be seen now.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 3/07/2015
References
Knox, H.T. 1902c Miscellanea - Bullauns, forming two of St. Patrick's Wells in Connaught. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 32, 188-90.
Nearby in the register
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy tree/bushunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.