Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Teernakill North, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Teernakill North
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberfeheen Holy Well
- Coordinates
- 53.50920, -9.58272
- SMR number
- GA038-006----
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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
Close to an old road at the foot of a prominent S-facing scarp. This well, correctly Tobar Feichín, consists of a small dilapidated circular depression (D 0.2m) in the ground, dry at the time of visit, which lies c. 3m E of a natural spring well. (Hardiman 1846, 120-1)
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashel1 mi
- Graveyard1 mi
- Mine2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.