Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Knockanyconor, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockanyconor
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Johns Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Johns Well
- Coordinates
- 53.54610, -8.04901
- SMR number
- RO045-056002-
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. Adjacent to the E of holy well (RO045-056001-) is a dry circular well (diam. 1.5m; D 1m) conserved in masonry and approached by steps from the S. The well was conserved in 1984 and it might represent an older form of the well which is still in use and still venerated.
See the attached image of the wells taken from the S
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - portal tombunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.