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Ritual site - holy well

Croaghaun (Inchiquin By.), County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ritual site - holy well, Croaghaun, 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
Croaghaun (Inchiquin By.)
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Toberinneenboy
Latest-edition OS map
Toberinneenboy (1921)
Coordinates
52.86114, -9.06088
SMR number
CL033-058----

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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

In a slight fold on a NE-facing slope and on the W side of a laneway. The well is a rectangular drystone-built structure (dims. 1.1m x 1.1m) with two lintels and an opening (Wth 0.6m x 0.6m) at NE. Just to the N statuary is housed in a large concrete and glass structure (dims. 2.1m x 1.2m; H c. 2m) with a rendered wall allowing passage around it. The base of a finial cross (CL033-058001-) is cemented on top of this wall.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 10 April 2017

Nearby in the register

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

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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