Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Foyran, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Foyran
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- The Rose Well
- Coordinates
- 53.74642, -7.30393
- SMR number
- WM001-039----
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 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated in a low-lying flat poorly drained land, with stream 15m to S. Foyran Church (WM001-042----) and graveyard (WM001-042001-) 500m to ENE. Only a shallow marshy depression (diam. 3m) marks the site of the well marked as 'The Rose Well' on the 1911 ed. OS 25-inch map. There are no stones visible or any evidence of a structure associated with this well. In 1837 the Ordnance Survey field Name Books recorded that this well was known locally as 'The Rose Well' or ‘Tobernaroagh’, which at that time was described as 'a small well nearly closed up supposed to cure a disease called ‘the rose’ which was a swelling of the joints' (ASI File).
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 18 November 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cross - Wayside crossunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cross - Wayside crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.