Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Mullafarry, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mullafarry
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobercashleen
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobercashleen
- Coordinates
- 54.19618, -9.23575
- SMR number
- MA022-029----
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 pasture, in a thicket of hawthorn and brambles, located at the base of natural rock outcropping on a N-facing slope.
This well is named ‘Tobercashleen’ on the 1838 and 1929 OS 6-inch maps. It is mentioned in the 1838 OS Letters, but is not described as a holy well: '..there is a well in Mullafarry called Tobar Caislín (Tobarcashleen).' (O’Flanagan 1927, 176-7 (93-4)).
A spring emerging from two small clefts at the base of a rock face. The water merges into a small stream that flows to W for a few meters, before changing course downslope to N.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 25 April 2019
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1927 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Mayo collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1838. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.