Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Mote Demesne, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mote Demesne
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Catherines Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Catherines Well
- Coordinates
- 53.59173, -8.17061
- SMR number
- RO041-026001-
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
In a low-lying landscape. An overgrown natural spring is surrounded by a rectangular drystone-walled enclosure (dims 5.3m WNW-ESE; 5m NNW-SSE) which was built c. 1753 (OS Name Book). A limestone slab (RO041-026002-) (dims 0.6m x 0.45m; T 0.2m) with an inscription recording the building of the wall by Sir Marcus Lowther Crofton in Sep. 1780 (Siggins 1992, 77) is at the well.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
OSNB - Ordnance Survey Name Books. Pro-forma books arranged by Civil Parish for recording townland and other name-forms and compiled in the course of the OS 6-inch survey 1824-1841. The name books also include minor names and incidental references to antiquities. National Archives of Ireland.
Siggins, A. 1992 County Roscommon's holy wells. Journal of the County Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Society, vol. 4, 76-7.
Nearby in the register
- Inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.