Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Moneyduff, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moneyduff
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobernanarm
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobernanarm
- Coordinates
- 53.26138, -8.93023
- SMR number
- GA095-083----
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
In reclaimed marshland. Named ‘Tobernanarm’ in Gothic script on the 1838 and 1920 editions of the 6-inch OS maps. On inspection it appeared to be a natural spring well, choked with weeds, where no votive offerings were visible. The spring fed a stream named ‘Bellanabradaun’. The site is now bordered my modern housing developments to the W, N and E, and is marked ‘Open Well’ on the current OSi digital mapping. (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 311)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 April 2023
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1927 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Galway collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Typescript in 3 vols. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.