Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Cill Ogúla, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cill Ogúla
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobereany
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobereany
- Coordinates
- 53.32200, -9.18634
- SMR number
- GA081-011003-
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
Some 85m NW of, and upslope from, an oratory (GA081-011001-). This well, correctly Tobar Éinne, is a natural spring delimited by an oval drystone wall (1.17m by 0.8m) with an entrance at SE. According to Killanin (1947, 122) it is resorted to for diseases of the eye. (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 381)
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
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.