Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ballymore Lower, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymore Lower
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobermurry
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobermurry
- Coordinates
- 53.23267, -8.17731
- SMR number
- GA100-016----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In a dried-up stream in pastureland, formerly part of Ballymore Demesne. Named 'Tobbermurry' on the 1838 and 1946 revision of the OS 6-inch maps. Apart from some loose stones scattered around a hawthorn tree, no visible surface trace of the well survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 19 December 2022
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Mausoleumunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.