Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Foher, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Foher
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobersalrock Holy Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobersalrock Holy well (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.60728, -9.84751
- SMR number
- GA010-008003-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
At NW end of Salrock graveyard (GA010-008002-). This well, correctly Tobar Salroc, is indicated on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map but was evidently gone by time of 2nd ed. (1896), when the words 'Site of' are appended. No visible surface trace survives. (Tully Cross I.C.A. 1985, 9)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Cairn - wayside cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.