Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Finnor More, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Finnor More
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberbreedia
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberbreedia (1922)
- Coordinates
- 52.79698, -9.41977
- SMR number
- CL038-036002-
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
On top of a hillock and within the E perimeter of a walled burial ground (CL038-036001-) which is itself within an enclosure (CL038-026003-). A circular well (diam. 0.9m; D 1.4m) retained by a masonry wall with four steps down to the water at ENE. There is no evidence or local knowledge of veneration.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 28 April 2020
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.