Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Foghill, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Foghill
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberara
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberara
- Coordinates
- 54.26210, -9.24915
- SMR number
- MA015-009----
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
In level pasture, adjacent to a stream/drain. There is a farmstead to S and W.
This holy well is named ‘Toberara’ on the 1838 and 1922 OS 6-inch maps, and is recorded in the OS Letters (1838, 196 (102)) as ‘Tober a Righ’. The well, now dried up, is enclosed by a concrete wall. According to local information, three large stones once formed one side of the well.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 13 November 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.