Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Skreen More, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Skreen More
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Adamnans Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Adamnans Well
- Coordinates
- 54.24131, -8.72874
- SMR number
- SL019-006001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Situated at a bedrock outcrop, at the N verge of a modern roadway. A pool (max. dim. c. 4m), defined by modern concrete walls, has been created from the waters of a spring which originates from underneath the bedrock, and flows as a stream to NE. Immediately W of the holy well is monumental structure (SL019-006002-). There is a church (SL019-007001-) and graveyard (SL019-007002-) 80m to WSW.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Monumental structureunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.