Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Cragg, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cragg
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobermochulla
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobermochulla (1921)
- Coordinates
- 52.87712, -8.76852
- SMR number
- CL035-020002-
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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
Located off-centre to SE, within a children’s burial ground (CL035-020001-). Depicted as a small, circular well on the 1839 OS 6-inch map and named Tobermochulla on all OS historic mapping. A shallow, oval depression (2.25m NW-SE; 3m NE-SW; D 0.45m) which is cut into the contour of a relatively steep SE-facing slope. It is defined on the upslope by some large stones which are situated intermittently around the shallow depression NW-E-SE. It is defined on the downslope by a large beech tree with a number of stones artificially heaped up around its base. These stones form a mound (1.9m NW-SE; 2.7m NE-SW; H 0.8m) around the roots of the tree. There is no water in the well and it is poached by cattle, as is the burial ground and woodland in general. A tree-lined, earthen field boundary is c. 3.75m to SE.
The following image has been uploaded:
CL035-020002-_01.jpg From NW. General view of holy well.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 18 December 2018
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.