Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Fanore More, County Clare, Ireland
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----
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
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
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.