Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Formaoil, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Formaoil
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.33766, -9.46578
- SMR number
- GA079-002----
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 N shore of Loch Fhormaoil. Known locally as An Tobar Beannaithe or Tobar na bhFaithní, it consists of a small natural hole (D 0.2m) on the lake margin which runs horizontally into the rock for c. 0.3m and contains some coins. A couple of small stones on a nearby boulder is the only marker for the well which was reputed to have a cure for warts (info. T. Robinson). Not visited.
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
- Burial ground3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.