Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Castletown (ferrard By.), County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castletown (ferrard By.)
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tober Maura
- Coordinates
- 53.80004, -6.39458
- SMR number
- LH021-003002-
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 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Marked on the 1912 'OS 6-inch' map as 'Tober Maura'. It is situated in a hollow near a mill race. It is approached by a line of stone flag steps which curve down a slope. The well itself is not lined.
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 12 July 2012
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.