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Ritual site - holy well

Fanore More, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ritual site - holy well, Fanore More, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Fanore More
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Tobergeeraun
Latest-edition OS map
Tobergeeraun (1915)
Coordinates
53.10273, -9.27219
SMR number
CL004-019----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On a wet, steep W-facing hillslope, and within a large field system (CL004-016001-). Named ‘Tobergeeraun’ on the 1840 and 1915 OS 6-inch maps. A penitential station (CL004-019002-) stands c. 4.5m to the WSW.
The holy well is enclosed in a beehive-shaped, drystone structure (dims. 1.7m N-S; 1.3m E-W; H 1.8m). At ground level at W, a small, rectangular, lintelled opening allows access to the well, and above the ope is a similarly sized rectangular and lintelled alcove which, when inspected in 1998, contained votive offerings.

See attached CL004-019----_1: photo of holy well from W.

Summary by: Gearóid Conroy and Lynda McCormack

Date of upload: 29 September 2022

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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