Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Glinsce, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glinsce
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.36080, -9.83340
- SMR number
- GA064-002----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
On N side of Cnoc Buí. Known locally as Tobar Muire, it consists of a small cavity, in which rain-water lodges, on a slanting outcrop of smooth rock. The opening is usually covered by a small flat stone and the well is delimited by a low horseshoe-shaped drystone wall (1.6m by c. 1.5m) opening to S. A small flagstone projecting from the wall above the well carries a few modern offerings. (Robinson 1985, 19-20)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Memorial stoneunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Road - gravel/stone trackway - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Children's burial ground1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.