Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Cross, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cross
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tober Cormac
- Coordinates
- 54.06218, -8.45639
- SMR number
- SL039-032----
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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 the corner of a field, on a N-facing slope. A waterlogged muddy overgrown area and some moss-covered stones mark the site of the well. A local legend, recorded in 1836, told that the mother of Cormac Mac Airt gave birth to Cormac while collecting water at Tober Cormac but while she was asleep the baby was taken by a wolf to a cave at Kesh (SL039-034----) to SE; some years later Cormac was returned to his mother (OSL, 161). A stretch of the road known as Bothar an Corann (SL033-145----) is c. 80m to the SW. (Kielty 2001, 4)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005).
Date of upload: 18 January 2008
Nearby in the register
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Platformunder 1 mi
- Platformunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.