Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Portrunny, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Portrunny
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.59182, -8.06299
- SMR number
- RO042-168001-
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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
On a gentle NE-facing slope down to Portrunny Bay on Lough Ree, and in a bay on the NW side of a laneway. Circular well (diam. 1.6m), known as St Diarmaid's Well, is defined by a masonry wall (Wth 0.9m; H 0.5m) with an opening at E. There is a rag-tree (RO042-168002-) on the S side of the lane, and the well has been conserved. Extensive archaeological testing (04E0157) immediately to the SE failed to produce any related archaeological material (Read 2007k), and testing (09E0499) in the field to the NW had a similar result (Byrne 2012b). Portrunny church (RO042-044001-) is c. 110m to the W.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 19 June, 2012
References
Byrne, M.E. 2012b Portrunny and Cooltona: no archaeological significance. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2009: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 185, No. 711. Dublin. Wordwell.
Read, C. 2007k Lacken. No archaeological significance. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2004: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 380, No. 1469. Dublin. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy tree/bushunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.