Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Cloonshinnagh (tirawley By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonshinnagh (tirawley By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobernasool
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobernasool
- Coordinates
- 54.17670, -9.24759
- SMR number
- MA022-057----
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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 lowlying, average pasture, close to the junction of two field boundaries.
This holy well is named ‘Tobernasool’ on the 1838 and 1929 OS 6-inch maps. Patterns were held here in the past, but the well is now no longer visited (Pers. comm. Jim Gilvarry 1888). It consists of a pool (c. 4m E–W; c. 3m N–S; D c. 0.7m) of stagnant water, bordered on the E side by a kerb of stones, with two stone steps giving access to the water. There is a rath (MA022-058----) 290m to ENE.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 2 May 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.