Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Penitential station
Kilbarry, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilbarry
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.77431, -7.89642
- SMR number
- RO030-001002-
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 the S-facing slope of an E-W ridge, at the junction with the flood-plain of the River Shannon. A cairn (Wth 1-1.5m; H 0.5m) is heaped against the outside of the wall around St Barry's Well (RO030-001002-). Kilbarry church (RO024-016001-) is c. 300m to the N. (O'Connell 1988, 59)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
O'Connell, M. 1988 An examination of how some Co. Roscommon holy wells feature in the cult of the holy well in Ireland. Journal of the Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Society 7, 58-65.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.