Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Masiness, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Masiness
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Turras Columbkille
- Coordinates
- 55.12847, -7.90945
- SMR number
- DG026-046----
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 1881 map "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1881 · Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1900 · Ireland (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 1. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Marked 'Turras Columbkille' on 1905 ed. of OS 6-inch map. Its location is derived from the fieldwork map for the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal' (1983). Described by Ó Muirgheasa in 1936 as 'There is a Turus Colmcille at Colmcille's Holy Well about a mile from Massinass School. Stations are still made there' (Ó Muirgheasa 1936, 153) (Ó Muirgheasa No. 58)
Compiled by Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload/revision: 04 November 2011
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Memorial stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.