Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Cahercalla,toonagh (bunratty Upper By.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cahercalla,toonagh (bunratty Upper By.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberlanniv Holy Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberlanniv Holy Well (Site of) (1921)
- Coordinates
- 52.84010, -8.82819
- SMR number
- CL034-095006-
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-lying landscape, at the townland boundary of Toonagh and Cahercalla in a field of bramble scrub. Named 'Toberlanniv Holy Well' on the 1840 OS 6-inch map but named 'Toberlanniv Holy Well (Site of )' on the 1921 edition. On inspection in 2005 an area of damp ground with loose stones (diam. 3m) was visible.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 19 June 2018
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Inauguration siteunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.