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Ritual site - holy well

Carrowbaun (Ballymoe By.), County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ritual site - holy well, Carrowbaun, County Roscommon, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Carrowbaun (Ballymoe By.)
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Holy Well
Latest-edition OS map
St Columcilles Well
Coordinates
53.73610, -8.25178
SMR number
RO028-180001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On a low-lying level landscape. Drystone-lined depression (diam. 1.4m; D 0.7m) which is open to NE and which has a channel leading E that surfaces c. 3m distant. The well is surrounded by a grass-covered cairn (RO028-180003-) (diam. 6.6m NW-SE; 5.9m NE-SW; H 0.3-0.4m) on which an ash tree and whitethorns are growing. There is no evidence of veneration, but it was known locally as St Bridget's Well (Gormley 1989, 62). Fulacht fia (RO028-180002-) is c. 50m to the WSW, and Aghclare church (RO028-181001-) is c. 140m to the S.

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.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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