Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ballinaboy, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinaboy
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobernagreaghta
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobernagreaghta
- Coordinates
- 53.64364, -8.12233
- SMR number
- RO040-016----
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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
In a low-lying landscape near the junction of two streams. The well known as Tobernagreaghta was famous in the 19th century for curing wounds according to J. O'Donovan in 1837 (O'Flanagan 1931, vol. 1, 53). It is thought to be the original site of St Bridget's Well of Cloonmurly (RO040-017----), c. 65m to the E, which moved when it was desecrated by an unbeliever, Robert Ormsby. It is not visible at ground level in pasture. Patterns were held at night between Aug. 15th and Sep. 9th. (Ryan, 1997, 222)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Ryan, H. A. 1997 Aspects of Kilteevan history. In H. A. Ryan (ed.) Kilteevan: A look at a school and its parish. 220-34, Kilteevan. Kilteevan School Board of Management
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1931 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Roscommon collected during the progress of the
Ordnance Survey in 1837. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.