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Well

Ballinvoher North, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Well, Ballinvoher North, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1811 · 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 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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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