Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Killaguile, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killaguile
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobergranoge
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobergranoge, Altar
- Coordinates
- 53.38959, -9.28397
- SMR number
- GA067-017001-
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
At the foot of a hillslope c. 140m NNW of a CBG (GA067-018----). This holy well, correctly Tobar Gráineog (?), consists of a natural spring enclosed by a circular drystone wall (D 1.6m). According to local tradition it was used for the baptism of young children. The altar, which lies c. 6m to SE, consists of a ruinous rectangular platform (L 1.8m, Wth 1.2m, H 0.6m) of drystone construction. The latter is mistakenly referred to by Killanin (1947, 120, 124) as a megalithic tomb.
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
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.