Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Knockash, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockash
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobermacduagh
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobermacduagh
- Coordinates
- 53.15741, -8.53424
- SMR number
- GA115-040----
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
On level ground, c. 270m S of a children’s burial ground (GA115-037----). Named 'Tobermacduagh' on the 1838 and 1920 editions of the OS 6-inch maps. On inspection this natural spring well had recently been enlarged to make a watering hole for cattle and horses. No votive offerings or other structural features were visible.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of Upload: 12 April 2023
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.