Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Cloonnaglasha, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonnaglasha
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobergauran
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.53937, -8.95864
- SMR number
- GA029-060002-
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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
Some 20m S of a CBG (GA029-060001-) on the opposite, S, bank of a stream. The OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 26) noted the existence of 'a holy well called Tobar Garán, Tobbar-gauraun'. All that survives is a slight indentation in the bank of the stream. According to local information, it was originally surrounded by stone kerbing and local women would frequent it 'on the eve of every holy day of obligation'.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
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- Boundary moundunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.