Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Parkroe (clarinbridge Ed), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Parkroe (clarinbridge Ed)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobersruhlin
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobersruhlin
- Coordinates
- 53.25250, -8.90624
- SMR number
- GA095-117----
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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 low-lying farmland, immediately SW of the main Galway-Ennis road. A spring is named ‘Tobersruhlin’, in Gothic script, on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map. However, on the 1920 edition, the name is appended to a well c. 30m to the NW. According to the OS Letters (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 312), the name ‘Tobar Sruithlinn’ is ‘locally explained as signifying the well of the little stream’ and it was not ‘a perpetual spring’ as it sometimes dried up. On inspection, it was found that the natural spring fed the well, which was defined by a small drystone well-chamber roofed with one capstone. There were no votive offerings at either location or anything to suggest they were of ritual significance.
Compiled by: 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
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- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Concentric enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.