Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Gortlustia, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortlustia
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- St Patricks Well
- Coordinates
- 53.76280, -8.04166
- SMR number
- RO029-044001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Marked only on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as 'St Patrick's Well', and situated on a gentle SE-facing slope. There is no visible evidence of a well, but a grass and moss-covered penitential cairn (RO029-044002-) (dims 5m x 4m; H 0.6m) and a large beech tree are at the location. A modern well is c. 30m to the N, and rath (RO029-045----) is c. 50m to the SE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.