Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Quilty West, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Quilty West
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobernahallia
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobernahallia (Site of) (1922)
- Coordinates
- 52.81706, -9.45655
- SMR number
- CL038-008----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In the village of Quilty at the N edge of a low sea cliff which has been eroded by the sea. Although named 'Tobernahallia' in Gothic script on the OS 6-inch maps, it is no longer visible at ground level, and there is no evidence that it was venerated.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 14 April 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.