Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Leitir Mealláin, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Leitir Mealláin
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.22812, -9.75613
- SMR number
- GA089-020----
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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
Among the rocks just above HWM at SW end of Leitir Mealláin. Known locally as Tobar an Tóin Dubh, it consists of a round pothole with part of the rim extending into a broad point on one side. According to local custom, it should be visited on a Monday and a Friday, making nine rounds each time (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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Signal towerunder 1 mi
- Chapel1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.