Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Cloonown, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonown
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Bridgets Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Bridgets Well
- Coordinates
- 53.36909, -7.93860
- SMR number
- RO055-004----
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
Marked on the 1837 and 1915 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and described in gothic lettering on both as 'St Bridget's Well'. It is situated on a level landscape. This is a natural rectangular spring (dims c. 5m E-W; c. 2m N-S) surrounded by field stones and overgrown but open to the SW and used by cattle. There is no record of, knowledge of, or evidence of veneration.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.