Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Kilclehaun, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilclehaun
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberclehaun
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberclehaun (1922)
- Coordinates
- 52.78245, -9.45599
- SMR number
- CL038-026002-
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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 a gentle SE-facing slope at the centre of a burial ground (CL038-026001-). A circular well (int. diam. c. 1m) surrounded by a drystone wall (Wth 0.8m; int. H 2.1m; ext. H 0.6m; ext. diam. 3.2-3.4m) with an entrance (Wth 0.75m) and six steps at NW. A number of triangular alcoves containing offerings line the internal walls. The well has been conserved.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 27 April 2020
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.