Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ryelands, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ryelands
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberslane
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberslane
- Coordinates
- 54.95036, -7.55207
- SMR number
- DG054-051----
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
Described by Ó Muirgheasa in 1936 as ' "Tobar Slan, in the townland of Ryelands", near Manorcunningham, is mentioned in O'Donovan's Survey Letters. He believed it was the same as a historic well called Tobar Cobharthach, as it means the Well of Healing' (Ó Muirgheasa 1936, 155). (Ó Muirgheasa No. 79)
Compiled by Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload/revision : 04 November 2011
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.