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Ritual site - holy well

Ballyclery, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ritual site - holy well, Ballyclery, 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
Ballyclery
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Tobermacduagh
Latest-edition OS map
Tobermacduagh
Coordinates
53.14488, -8.92074
SMR number
GA113-010001-

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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

At the foot of a steep S-facing slope in rough pastureland. This spring well, named 'Tobermacduagh' on the OS 6-inch maps, is defined by an overgrown rectangular drystone chamber (L 3.7m; Wth 3.2m; H 0.9m). It is filled with stones and no relics or votive offerings were noted. When recorded by Fahey (1893, 112-3) the 'Turas' associated with it was still being observed. Circa 5m to the SE is a small cairn (6.5m E-W; 5m N-S; H 1m) surmounted by a cross (GA113-010002-) dated 1820. Two other covered spring wells lie c. 15m to the W and c. 22m to the SW respectively. (Kelly 1914, 115-16)

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 2 January 2019

References

Kelly, R.J. 1914 Dungory Castle, Kinvarra. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 44, 114-131.

Fahey, J.A. 1893 (Reprint 1986) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Kilmacduagh. Galway. Kenny Gallery.

Nearby in the register

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

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