Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Shandrum, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shandrum
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobermurry
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobermurry (1922)
- Coordinates
- 52.80303, -9.45572
- SMR number
- CL038-009----
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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
On flat ground on the NW side of a NE-SW ridge, and c. 130m NNW of Kilmurry Church (CL038-010001-). Named on the OS maps in Gothic script as 'Tobermurry' (from Muire) and described in the Ordnance Survey Letters as a defunct holy well (O'Flanagan 1928, vol. 1, 346). On inspection in 2002 this was found to be a natural pool (diam. c. 4m) with a stream running off to NNW. There were no remaining structures and it was not known locally as a holy well.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 14 April 2020
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.
Nearby in the register
- Stone sculptureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.