St Bridgets Well at Cloonmurly, Roscommon

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On a low-lying landscape, in a field on the E side of a NNW-SSE road. Traditionally this well appeared when a notorious landlord, George Ormsby, attempted to cure an injured dog at Tobernagreghta well (RO040-016----) c. 65m to the W, from whence it moved in disgust to this location (O'Flanagan 1931, vol. 1, 53). Described as a well, also known as Tober Nual, with a rag tree of ash where a pattern has held on 15th Aug. (IFC Schools' MSS. vol. 260, 1,2; vol. 1506, 166). The well is a rectangular concrete structure (dims 0.8m x 0.8m) and there is now no evidence of a rag tree or of veneration (Ryan 1997, 222). Archaeological monitoring (03E1576) in the vicinity failed to produce any related material (Morahan 2006b).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO040-017

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