Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Portdarragh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Portdarragh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberdrolaun
- Coordinates
- 53.36757, -9.12463
- SMR number
- GA068-055----
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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
In a densely wooded area c. 400m from W shore of Lough Corrib. This well, correctly Tobar Drólainn (?), consists of a natural spring in a triangular rock cleft. No evidence of enclosure or veneration noted.
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 house1 mi
- Ritual site - holy well1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.