Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Croaghaun (inchiquin By.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Croaghaun (inchiquin By.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberinneenboy
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberinneenboy (1921)
- Coordinates
- 52.86624, -9.07005
- SMR number
- CL033-012----
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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
Situated on the S bank of a stream at the bottom of a steep N-facing hill. Indicated and named 'Toberinneenboy' on the 1842 and 1921 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. It was dedicated to St. Inneen (Frost 1893, 114; O'Flanagan 1929, vol. 1, 28), but is it not visible at ground level and is not known locally.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 18 May 2016
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1928 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Clare collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Typescript in 3 vols. Bray.
Frost, J. 1893 (Reprint 1978) The history and topography of the county of Clare: from the earliest times to the beginning of the 18th century. Dublin. Mercier Press.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Font (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.