Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Carrowbeg (clare By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowbeg (clare By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberkeeraun Holy Well
- Coordinates
- 53.46501, -9.14644
- SMR number
- GA041-011----
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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 level pastureland. This well consists of a natural spring delimited by a circular drystone surround (D 1.6m) and is accessible at W via five steps. There is a small aumbry inside the entrance on N side. The OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 181) note that 'stations were performed on every Sunday, but particularly on the 9th of September, which is said to be St. Kieran's Day'.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.