Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Kilcorney, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcorney
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobernanangel
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobernanangel (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.04035, -9.15472
- SMR number
- CL009-029001-
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
At the base of a SE-facing slope on the floor of Kilcorney Valley, in a craggy area covered with trees on the edge of extensively reclaimed pasture. Named ‘Tobernanangel’ on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map and recorded as 'Tobar na n-Aingeal' in the Ordnance Survey Letters (1839) (Comber 1997, 76). A field visit in 1998 recorded a silted-up spring (L 1.6m; Wth 0.8m) in a natural bedrock fracture with no sign of veneration. An ecclesiastical enclosure (CL009-028001-), church (CL009-028002-), graveyard (CL009-028003-) and font (CL009-028004-) are located c. 130m to the NW.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Conn Herriott and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 4 January 2022
References
Comber, M. (ed.) 1997 The antiquities of County Clare: John O’Donovan and Eugene Curry: Ordnance Survey Letters 1839. Clasp Press. Ennis.
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.