Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Kingsland South, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kingsland South
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobar Padraig
- Coordinates
- 53.29924, -8.72071
- SMR number
- GA084-090----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On low-lying drained marshy ground. Named ‘Tobar Padraig’ only on the 1933 edition of the 6-inch OS map. On inspection in 1983, it consisted of a natural spring well supplying a nearby stream. On a subsequent inspection in 1992, there was no visible trace of it as a wide deep drain was cut across it. Cody (1989, 333, no. 148), referring to the OS Revision Name Book, noted that in 1928 it was no longer regarded as a holy well.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of Upload: 12 April 2023
Nearby in the register
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.