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Ritual site - holy well

Eoghanacht, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ritual site - holy well, Eoghanacht, 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
Eoghanacht
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Toberbrecan
Latest-edition OS map
Toberbrecan
Coordinates
53.14536, -9.77704
SMR number
GA110-023006-

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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

Part of Na Seacht Teampaill. Some 10m E of a grave-plot (GA110-023005-) on a low bluff overlooking the monastic complex. This well, correctly Tobar Bhreacáin, consists of a natural bullán or rockpool in the limestone with a canopy of rough limestone blocks. Now disused (info. T. Robinson). Not visited. (Waddell 1973, 26, where misplaced; Robinson 1980)

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).

Date of upload: 05 August 2010

References

Robinson, T. 1980 The Aran Islands, Co. Galway: a map and guide. Árainn. Published by the author.

Waddell, J. 1973 An archaeological survey of Temple Brecan, Aran. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 33, 5-27.

Nearby in the register

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

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