Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Doire Bhriosc, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doire Bhriosc
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tober Patrick
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tober Patrick
- Coordinates
- 53.37590, -9.51945
- SMR number
- GA066-002----
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 rough land 0.5km S of the Doire Bhriosc road just outside the former limits of cultivated land. Known locally as Tobar Phádraig, it consists of a small natural water-filled hollow with a diminutive drystone canopy over it. Circa 3.5m to NW is a natural boulder bedecked, like the well, with modern offerings, including rounded beach pebbles. The latter were brought from Tobar Cholmcille in An Chloch Mhór Theas (GA091-006----) by a local girl not long ago. Frequented on the last Sunday in July (pers. comm. T. Robinson).
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
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Children's burial ground3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.