Inscribed stone in Rosserk, County Mayo

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At a holy well (MA022-083001), built into the S gable of the stone-built well house. According to the 1838 OS Letters (O’Flanagan 1927, 86), this 17th-century inscribed stone was already at the well prior to the construction of the well house in 1789, when it was incorporated into the facade. The Latin inscription is dedicated to the Most Blessed Virgin, who according to tradition appeared at the well, and it states that the stone was commissioned in 1684 by Father Moriartus Crehn. The inscription is now partly effaced and difficult to read; the 1838 OS Letters record it as follows: In honorum Dei omnipotentis. Beatifsimae Virginis Sine labe concepta et omnium santctorum celestis Curia me fieri fecit Pater Moriartus Crehn Aug + 30 + 1684 Attached image: MA022-083002-_01.JPG Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 7 May 2019

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MA022-083002

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