Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Kiltoom, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kiltoom
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St Patricks Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St Patricks Well
- Coordinates
- 53.49370, -8.03661
- SMR number
- RO045-198----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 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
In a low-lying basin, c. 200m N of Kiltoom church (RO045-199001-) and, according to J. O'Donovan writing c. 1835 (O'Flanagan 1931, vol. 1, 50-1) it was known more correctly as Toberfaghtna. Described locally as a drystone structure, it is now an oval overgrown pond, disturbed by drainage channels and with no evidence of veneration.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.