Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Toberjarlath, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Toberjarlath
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tober Jarlath
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobar Jarlath (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.50625, -8.84608
- SMR number
- GA043-080002-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In NW quadrant of an early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA043-080001-). This well was noted by O'Donovan in 1839 (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 46) and is marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map; on 3rd ed. (1930), the words 'Site of' are appended. No visible surface trace survives but a stone memorial erected in 1943 marks the site.
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.