Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Cloonmoylan (abbeyville Ed), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonmoylan (abbeyville Ed)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberusta
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberusta
- Coordinates
- 53.05664, -8.30829
- SMR number
- GA126-012----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the N bank of a stream in pastureland. Named ‘Toberusta’ on the 1838 edition and 1947-8 revision of the OS 6-inch map. This flooded well (D 0.6 to 0.8m on the day of visit) is delimited along the N side by a semi-circular drystone wall (Wth 0.6m; H 0.8m). On inspection the wall was in poor condition, with dense overgrowth to the E and W. While it has been regarded locally as a holy well, it has not been used as such for many years.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 January 2023
Nearby in the register
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.