Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Cornalee, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cornalee
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.49061, -8.16344
- SMR number
- RO045-222001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 low-lying landscape c. 150m NE of the SE end of Lough Cronin. This is a circular well (diam. 4m; D 1.7m) known locally as Toberakay, where patterns were held on the three Sundays before Garland Sunday (Kelly 1907, 5) which was in late July or early August. There is presently no evidence of veneration. There is a grass-covered subcircular hut-site or penitential cairn (RO045-222002-) (int. dims 3.9m x 3.1m) defined by a grass-covered wall footing (Wth 0.3-0.5m; H 0.2-0.6m) immediately to the SE.
See the attached view from the N with the cairn behind.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Kelly, M.K. 1907 Cam of St. Bride. Athlone Printing Works.
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Stone headunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.