Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Mweeloon, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mweeloon
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberbrenan
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberbrenan
- Coordinates
- 53.22967, -8.98313
- SMR number
- GA094-033----
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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
In level grassland, overlooking Mweeloon Bay c. 150m to the W. Named ‘Toberbrenan’ in Gothic script on the 1838 and 1945 editions of the 6-inch OS maps. This natural spring well (diam. 1.7m) is enclosed by a low circular drystone limestone wall (H 0.5m) that may originally have been up to 2m wide. At SW a ledge protrudes from the well shaft. On inspection, the water was 0.4m deep and the well was overgrown with bushes. It was known locally that it had been used as a holy well.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 April 2023
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - clearance cairnunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.