Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Raithnigh (tc An Cheathrú Chaol), County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Raithnigh (tc An Cheathrú Chaol)
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated, Tempodesha
- Latest-edition OS map
- Outlined, Tempodesha (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 55.12776, -7.66649
- SMR number
- DG027-019----
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 1881 "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
A well which is depicted on the current edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch located a few metres NW of a possible church (DG027-019001-) marked on the map as 'Tempodesha (Site of)'. Recorded by Kinahan in 1889/90 as 'at the N.E. of this townland there is a well called Tempodesha; but any old church that may formerly have existed has disappeared' (Kinahan 1889-90, 278).
Kinahan, G. H. (1889-90) 'Additional List of Megalithic and Other Ancient Structures, Barony of Kilmacrenan, CountyDonegal', Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland, FourthSeries, Vol. 9, pp. 277-286.
Compiled by Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload/revision: 02 November 2011
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.