Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Keelhilla, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Keelhilla
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobershanvally
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobershanvally (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.08318, -8.98786
- SMR number
- CL006-028001-
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 rough clint and gryke pavement covered with dense hazel thicket at the E foot of moderately steep slope. A small stream flows NE past the E side of the site and field clearance is dumped to the SE. Indicated and named ‘Tobershanbally’ on the 1842 and 1915 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps. On inspection in 1997 no visible remains were found. A surrounding field system (CL006-168----) with elements of potential antiquity extends SW to the site of a possible burial ground (CL006-027----). Two fulachtaí fia (CL006-028002- and CL006-028003-) lie c. 20m SE and c. 30m NE.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 4 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.