Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Marblehill, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Marblehill
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobermacduagh
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobermacduagh
- Coordinates
- 53.08260, -8.47641
- SMR number
- GA125-126002-
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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
On the S face of a hill in low-lying pastureland. Named ‘Tobermacduagh’ on the 1838 and 1920 editions of the 6-inch OS maps. This natural spring well is defined on the downslope side by a collapsed drystone wall. There is a pond immediately to its S and an ‘Altar’ (GA125-126001-) lies c. 3m to the N. (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 2, 517)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 April 2023
Nearby in the register
- Altarunder 1 mi
- Pumpunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.