Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Cartron (athlone South By., Athlone West Rural Ed), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cartron (athlone South By., Athlone West Rural Ed)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.43068, -8.01992
- SMR number
- RO052-024----
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
In a hollow in an undulating landscape. A natural spring in limestone outcrop is known locally as St Bridget's Well and was renowned for a cure of warts, but it was deepened on several occasions and is now visible as a slight hollow, but there is no evidence of veneration. The church at Cloonacille (RO051-018001-) is c. 190m to the SW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Water mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.