Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Well
Ballygarriff, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballygarriff
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberkeagh
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberkeagh
- Coordinates
- 53.23535, -8.81628
- SMR number
- GA095-002----
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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
In a hollow in rough pasture and scrub. Named ‘Toberkeagh’ in Gothic script on the 1838 and 1920 editions of the OS 6-inch maps, this disused spring well (diam. 1.6m; D 2.1m) is enclosed by a low circular drystone wall opening to the N, where nine stone steps provide access down to the water. Two modern cattle water troughs lie immediately to the W and N. There are no indications that this was ever considered to be a holy well.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 19 December 2022
Nearby in the register
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.