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Ritual site - holy well

Toberconnelly, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ritual site - holy well, Toberconnelly, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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 Unpublished MA thesis, University College Galway.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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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