Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Cloghvoley, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghvoley
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobercoghlan
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobercoghlan
- Coordinates
- 53.85158, -8.84251
- SMR number
- MA081-008----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In lowlying, rough pasture, located 5m S of a canalised stream and c. 70m SW of the shore of Lough Coughlan, and overlooked to SW by an esker/gravel ridge, now partly quarried out.
This holy well is indicated on the 1838 and 1919 OS 6-inch maps where it is named ‘Tobercoghlan’.
The well is entirely concealed by brambles and gorse, and is fenced off by post and wire fencing. Probing beneath the overgrowth suggests that it is enclosed by a stone wall, possibly forming a circular structure, diam. c. 1.8m and depth c. 1.2m.
Attached image: MA081-008----_01.JPG Location of well viewed from SW
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 6 December 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.