Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Penitential station
Brideswell, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brideswell
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.45277, -8.08871
- SMR number
- RO048-108007-
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
At the W edge of a low-lying basin. Patterns in the 1950s at St Bridget's Well (RO048-108001-) involved circuits of the 17th century house (RO048-188----), a cairn (RO048-10804-), a glacial erratic (RO048-108006-) and a second cairn, now removed and replaced by a statue of St Bridget, c. 10m W of the bath-house. Locally it is said that bones were found when this cairn was removed. A revived pattern is held at the end of July.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Armorial plaqueunder 1 mi
- Stoup (present location)under 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.