Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Toberreeoge, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Toberreeoge
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tober Reeoge
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tober Reeoge
- Coordinates
- 53.58797, -8.10080
- SMR number
- RO042-037----
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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
Marked as a single well on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as two pm the 1915 ed. but it is described as Tober Reeoge - the well of the young king - on both. It is situated in a low-lying landscape and is described locally as two circular wells, one of which was holy while the other was used for secular purposes. It is now modernised into a concrete well with no evidence of veneration, and with a pump-house nearby. There is a record of an inscribed stone commemoration Fr. Patrick Mulligan who erected a stone wall at the location in 1721 (Siggins 1992, 77), but this is now missing. (O'Flanagan 1931, vol. 1, 39)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 15 October, 2015
References
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.
Siggins, A. 1992 County Roscommon's holy wells. Journal of the County Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Society, vol. 4, 76-7.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.