Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Gortaghokera, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortaghokera
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobermacduagh
- Coordinates
- 53.36500, -9.14676
- SMR number
- GA068-018----
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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 roadside at S end of Gortaghokera house cluster. This well, correctly Tobar Mac Duach, consists of a deep natural spring delimited by drystone walling and accessible via 24 steps, which is contained within a small triangular-shaped enclosure (1.5m by 1.2m) with an entrance at NW.
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.