Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Inscribed stone
Mote Demesne, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mote Demesne
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.59173, -8.17061
- SMR number
- RO041-026002-
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
In a low-lying landscape. The holy well (RO041-026001-) has a limestone slab (dims 0.6m x 0.45m; T 0.2m) with an indecipherable inscription with the date 1789 (Siggins 1992, 77).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 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.