Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Maínis, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Maínis
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobergallankillave
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobergallankillave
- Coordinates
- 53.29243, -9.83784
- SMR number
- GA076-015----
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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
Below HWM c. 10m N of a quay on E shore of the island, and c. 100m SE of its position as marked on OS 6-inch maps. Known locally as Tobar Cholmcille, the garbled OS version presumably having been 'taken...down from an islander with a bad cold' (Robinson 1985, 26-7). It consists of a natural smooth and deep (0.6m) cylindrical pothole (D 0.6m).
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.