Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Knockroe (inchiquin By.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockroe (inchiquin By.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberkeagh
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberkeagh (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.05227, -8.95334
- SMR number
- CL007-005002-
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
In a low, wet hollow from where ground rises gently on all sides. Indicated and named ‘Toberkeagh’ on the 1842 and 1915 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps. A natural spring well enclosed by a small D-shaped enclosure (2.1m E–W) defined by a drystone wall (Wth 1m; internal H 1.3m). It would have been open to E, but a concrete watering trough has now been inserted. The enclosing wall is largely overgrown with briar and thorn and the wet surrounding ground is poached. A fulacht fiadh (CL007-005003-) lies on slightly higher ground c. 16m to the WSW.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 30 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.