Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ballinvoher North, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinvoher North
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Yellow Well
- Coordinates
- 53.48393, -8.32699
- SMR number
- GA047-007----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1857 · 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 low-lying grassland. Traditionally believed to be a cure for jaundice if visited on three consecutive Sundays before sunrise; hence the name Tobar Buidhe or Toberbwee (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 112-13). It consists of an unenclosed natural spring well. Thee is a CBG (GA047-009----) to NE.
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.