Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Cill Mhuirbhigh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cill Mhuirbhigh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobermacduagh
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobermacduagh
- Coordinates
- 53.13041, -9.75939
- SMR number
- GA110-044003-
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In an orchard c. 65m SSW of Teampall Mac Duach (GA110-044001-). Known locally as Tobar Mac Duach and described in OS Letters as 'a deep and cool uaran' (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 382). It consists of a natural spring, dry at time of visit, which is delimited by a neat horseshoe-shaped drystone wall (c. 3m by 1m) opening towards E. Immediately inside the latter opening, on N, is a stone ledge or seat.
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
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1927 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Galway collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Typescript in 3 vols. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed pillarunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.