Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Droim Snámha, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Droim Snámha
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberfeheen (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.49172, -9.48664
- SMR number
- GA039-016----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 hilly countryside close to the td. boundary and the confluence of two small streams. This holy well, correctly Tobar Fechín, is indicated on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map but was evidently gone by time of 2nd ed. (1899), when the words 'Site of' are appended. All that is visible today is a small pool with a little waterfall and a massive boulder in the bank. According to local tradition, the well had a cure for sore eyes. A CBG (GA039-016001-) is associated.
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 - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.