Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Inis Oírr, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inis Oírr
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobereany
- Coordinates
- 53.05812, -9.54492
- SMR number
- GA119-112----
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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 W side of the island c. 260m from shore. Known locally as Tobar Éinne, it consists of a small natural spring in the rock, delimited by a roughly rectangular drystone wall (L 2.2m, Wth 0.9m) with two entrances at NE and SW. There is a small alcove at the latter. (Robinson 1980; O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 433; Mason 1938, 199)
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
Nearby in the register
- Clochanunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.