Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Killoran (Killoran ED), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killoran (Killoran ED)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberoran
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberoran
- Coordinates
- 53.24528, -8.34514
- SMR number
- GA099-116----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · 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 flat marshland, c. 35m to the SW of the Killoran River. Named ‘Toberoran’ on the 1838 and 1947 editions of the OS 6-inch maps. This small natural spring is surrounded by traces of a low bank of earth and stone (max. H 0.3m). On inspection the well appeared much destroyed and almost completely filled in, though some water (D c. 0.15m) was still visible within a small drain-like feature. A number of coloured stones were scattered around it. According to local information, the stones were offerings to St Oran, to whom the well is dedicated.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of Upload: 12 April 2023
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.