Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Na Tuairíní, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Na Tuairíní
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobermacduagh
- Coordinates
- 53.31167, -9.15493
- SMR number
- GA081-025----
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 S side of a byroad in undulating farmland. This well, correctly Tobar Mac Duach, consists of a natural spring, dry at the time of visit, situated within a small rectangular stone enclosure, now overgrown with bushes.
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
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- House - vernacular houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.