Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Abbey West, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Abbey West
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobersheela
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberheela (1915)
- Coordinates
- 53.12648, -9.05320
- SMR number
- CL003-029004-
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated c. 70m SE of the abbey buildings at Corcomroe (CL003-029002-) just inside the line of the enclosing wall (CL003-029001-) and named ‘Tobersheela’on the 1915 OS 6-inch map. Two small rectangular rock-cut pools (D of water 0.3m; N pool: 1.4m E-W; 0.9m N-S; S pool: 1.15m E-W; 1.6m N-S) separated by an apparently set limestone block (Wth 0.55m; L 1.2m) and feeding a small stream to SW. Fenced off with barbed wire and wooden posts set in concrete and used as a watering hole.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 21 April 2015
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 1/1986).
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.