Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ardbear, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardbear
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberbeggan Holy Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberbeggan , Holy well
- Coordinates
- 53.47789, -10.02547
- SMR number
- GA035-006002-
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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
In SE part of Ardbear Cemetery (GA035-006001-), in a thicket beside an old alder tree. This well consists of natural spring within an oval drystone enclosure (1.9m by 1.53m) opening to S where there is a step down to the spring. (Killanin 1954, 95; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 165)
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
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Religious house - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.