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
- Toberkieran
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberkieran (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.09161, -8.97596
- SMR number
- CL006-030----
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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
At the foot of a limestone bluff (H 5m) on a moderately steep rock-strewn W-facing slope. Indicated and named ‘Toberkieran’ on the 1842 and 1915 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps. A poorly preserved apparently disused holy well. A shallow pool (D 0.2m; L 1m; Wth 0.8m) fed by a spring and functioning as a watering-hole for livestock. A few tumbled moss-covered stones to the W may be the remains of an enclosing wall.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 10 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.