Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Toberconnelly, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Toberconnelly
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberconnelly
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberconnelly
- Coordinates
- 53.27799, -8.73810
- SMR number
- GA096-169----
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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 marshland c. 5m to the S of the Eiscir River but indicated and named ‘Toberconnelly’, in Gothic script, on the 1838 and 1933 editions of the OS 6-inch map. This area was checked out by Cody (1989, 335-6) but it was not found. According to the landowner, the well, which was locally regarded as a holy well, was in fact located to the S of the river. A well is also indicated here on the 1933 edition of the map, suggesting that the well to the N was incorrectly labelled. It was a spring well that was filled in c. 1960 as it was hazardous to livestock. No visible surface trace of it survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 9 May 2023
References
Cody, E. 1989 An archaeological survey of the barony of Athenry, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, University College Galway.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
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- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.