Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Cloonburren, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonburren
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.31402, -8.05482
- SMR number
- RO056-006002-
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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 bottom of a W-facing slope c. 190m W of Cloonburren church (RO056-007002-). John O’Donovan writing in 1837 says there was a holy well ‘at the foot of this cross (RO056-005----)’ but it had moved to the other side of the road because clothes had been washed in it, and it had subsequently dried up when drains were dug to protect the road (O’Flanagan 1931, 1, 24-5; Herity 2010, 16). A well is marked on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map c. 220m ESE of the wayside cross but it is not known if it was a holy well and is no longer extant.
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.
Herity, M. (ed.) 2010 Ordnance Survey Letters, Roscommon. Dublin, Fourmasters Press
Nearby in the register
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Religious house nunnery - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.