Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Gallstown, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gallstown
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberanelshy
- Coordinates
- 53.79653, -6.36548
- SMR number
- LH021-011----
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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 'Toberanelshy'. Also referred to as 'Tober an Eleshy' (Stubbs 1908, 40).
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 17 July 2012
References
Stubbs F.W. 1908 Holy Wells in County Louth. In Journal of the County Louth Archaeological and Historical Society (Vol. 2) 40.
Nearby in the register
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
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- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.