Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Oran Beg, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oran Beg
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberdonaghbaun
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberdonaghbaun
- Coordinates
- 53.27293, -8.89985
- SMR number
- GA095-099----
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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 low-lying marshland and rock outcrop. Named 'Toberdonaghbaun' in Gothic script on the 1838 and 1920 editions of the OS 6-inch maps. According to the OS Letters (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 311), this spring well was known as ‘Tobar Dhonchadha Bháin … the well of Dennis bane (the white, or fair-haired)’. On inspection, the spring fed a trough from which a stream flowed to the SSW. Named ‘Open Well’ on the current OSi digital mapping.
Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 9 May 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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.