Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Well
Ballinvoher North, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinvoher North
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberhop
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberhop
- Coordinates
- 53.48428, -8.32469
- SMR number
- GA047-008----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In marsh and bogland. Marked and named in Gothic script on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map but on 3rd ed. (1932), it appears in Roman script. A natural spring well enclosed by a collapsed roughly squared-off drystone wall (L/Wth 3m) which has been badly disturbed by cattle. According to local tradition, a horse drowned here and as a result the well is known locally as 'Tobar na gCapaill'. A CBG (GA047-009----) and a holy well (GA047-007----) lie c. 170m to SW.
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
- Ritual site - holy 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.