Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Coolcholly, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolcholly
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobernasassonagh
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobernasassonagh
- Coordinates
- 54.50646, -8.19035
- SMR number
- DG107-107----
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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)
- 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Holy Well recorded in 1936 as 'There is a Holy Well at Toigh Tunnaigh, about half a mile from the " Rock Chapel," Ballyshannon. Turus still made, but on no particular day. Rags on the bushes around' (Ó Muirgheasa 1936, 144).
Compiled by Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload / revision : 01 November 2011
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.