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Ritual site - holy well

Eanty More, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ritual site - holy well, Eanty More, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Eanty More
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Toberderg
Latest-edition OS map
Toberderg (1916)
Coordinates
53.05016, -9.11416
SMR number
CL009-053008-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

At the head of a NE–SW ravine, on the E side of a roughly N-S running boreen, within a large multiperiod field system (CL005-160001-). The land falls very steeply c. 40m to the SW. Indicated and labelled ‘Toberderg’ on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map, and ‘Tobar Dearg’ on Robinson’s map (1977). A natural spring rises from the base of a rock face (4m E–W; H. 0.6m) and cascades over many small solution holes (pools) at various levels in the area. The water generally collects in a shallow pool immediately to the E, then seeps SW, soaking a triangular upper rock shelf in the ravine, c. 10m below the level of the well, before flowing as a waterfall (H c. 15m) to the flat ravine floor. No votive offerings were visible. In the past it was resorted to as a cure for rheumatism (heritage.clareheritage.org/places/holy-wells/tobar-derg-eanty-more accessed 31 January 2022). There is a cashel (CL009-053007-) c. 109m to the SSE and a fulacht fia (CL009-148----) c. 155m to the SW.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 31 January 2022

References

The Clare Holy Wells Project. https://heritage.clareheritage.org/places/holy-wells

Robinson, T. 1977 (revised 1999) The Burren: a two-inch map of the uplands of north-west Clare. Map scale 1:31680. Roundstone: Folding Landscapes.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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