Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ballintober, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballintober
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberbreda
- Coordinates
- 53.71984, -8.41380
- SMR number
- RO027-048006-
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 bottom of a S-facing slope, c. 30m W of the church (RO027-048005-). This is an oval well (dims 2.2m E-W; 1.05m N-S) recently conserved and surrounded by a path (Wth 1m) and an outer wall (Wth 0.5m; H 0.25m) S-W-N. The stream flows S, and the well is within an eliptical enclosure (dims c. 30m E-W; c. 15m N-S) attached to the S wall of the graveyard (RO027-048007-).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy tree/bushunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.