Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Inchagoill, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inchagoill
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobarnaneeve
- Coordinates
- 53.48394, -9.31326
- SMR number
- GA040-014----
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
Some 250m SE of Teampall na Naomh (GA040-013004-). This well, correctly Tobar na Naomh, consists of a natural spring, dry at time of visit, with traces of a stone revetment. There is a channel running W from it to the shore.
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
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.