Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Fahy (longford By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fahy (longford By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberros
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberros
- Coordinates
- 53.17621, -8.15249
- SMR number
- GA108-101----
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
Some 100m N of a church (GA108-102----), on the N bank of a stream. Named ‘Toberros’ on the 1838 edition and 1945 revision of the OS 6-inch maps. According to the OS Letters (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 2, 46), some bushes were growing over this well ‘in which they used to dip delicate children’. On inspection, no visible surface trace of it survived. The stream had been deepened as part of a land-drainage scheme. Some of the material resulting from this work that was dumped along the banks of the stream may have obscured the well.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 28 March 2023
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.