Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Mountirvine, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mountirvine
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobernambraher
- Coordinates
- 54.01143, -8.56419
- SMR number
- SL044-004----
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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
Adjacent to a field boundary, in low-lying damp ground at the base of a drumlin ridge. The present remains are a muddy unenclosed hollow. In 1836 it was noted that the well was also known as 'Tubbernacagher' and 'Tober na Mainistreach' and was not then in holy use (OSNB vol. 1, 432). Knockmore Abbey (SL044-003001-) is c. 160m to W.
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
- Religious house - Carmelite friarsunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.