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Ritual site - holy well

Toberreeoge, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ritual site - holy well, Toberreeoge, County Roscommon, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

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.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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