Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Cloonybeirne (roscommon By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonybeirne (roscommon By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Holy Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St Patricks Well
- Coordinates
- 53.73909, -8.19097
- SMR number
- RO028-166001-
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 low-lying level landscape. Described c. 1910 as a well with two small cairns adjacent (OS Name Book). Circular well (int. diam. 1.9m E-W; 1.7m N-S) defined by a drystone wall (Wth 0.75m; ext. H 0.6m), but with no evidence of veneration. It was known locally as St Bridget's Well (Gormley 1989, 62). There is the remains of a grass-covered penitential cairn (RO028-166002-) (diam. of top 5m NW-SE; 5m NE-SW; H 0.1-0.3m) immediately to the NW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Gormley, M. (compiler) 1989b Tulsk parish in historic Maigh Ai. Aspects of its history and folklore. Journal of the Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Society 2, 61-2.
OSNB 25-inch. Ordnance Survey Name Books compiled in the course of the 1:2500 survey of Ireland. National Archives of Ireland.
Nearby in the register
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.