Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Penitential station
Carrowbaun (ballymoe By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowbaun (ballymoe By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.73610, -8.25175
- SMR number
- RO028-180003-
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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. The holy well (RO028-180001-) is surrrounded by a grass-covered cairn (diam. 6.6m NW-SE; 5.9m NE-SW; H 0.3-0.4m) on which an ash tree and whitethorns are growing. Fulacht fia (RO028-180002-) is c. 50m to the WSW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.