Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Mweelin, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mweelin
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tober Mweelin
- Coordinates
- 53.55444, -9.87763
- SMR number
- GA023-023001-
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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
Just N of a graveyard (GA023-023002-) and within Connemara National Park. This well, correctly Tobar MaOilean, consists of a natural spring, now enclosed within a small rectangular 19th-C well-house (L 1.9m, Wth 1.6m, H 0.9m) of red brick, with a gabled roof of large slabs and a doorway in W wall. It was built to supply water to Kylemore Castle (pers. comm. T. Robinson). Reputedly associated with a St Maol or Maol Roc (Tully Cross I.C.A. 1985, 9): however, a maoilean is a ridge or rounded summit, so this may be a recent invention (pers. comm. T. Robinson).
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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.