Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Templemoyle, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Templemoyle
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 55.28741, -7.21140
- SMR number
- DG004-052004-
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 1841 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Templemoyle ecclesiastical complex consists of a modern rectangular graveyard 22m N-S, 20.5m E-W. To the N is a sub-rectangular area 12m E-W, 10.4m N-S with a level interior enclosed by a stone wall 1m high (DG004-052001-). Nearby, but now destroyed was a holy well (DG004-052004-) and a dallan or pillar stone (DG004-052007-) dedicated to St. Adomnán (Ó Muirgheasa No. 92). Described by Ó Muirgheasa in 9136 as 'St. Adamnan's turus at Templemoyle, parish of Cloncha. The well was near Aughnaclay N.S., and beside it was a dallan or pillar-stone to which persons used to rub the affected part when making the turus. This stone, I am informed, has been destroyed'(Ó Muirgheasa 1936, 157).
The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated.
Compiled by Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload / revision : 02 November 2011
Nearby in the register
- Pillar stoneunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.