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Ritual site - holy well

Cloghvoley, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ritual site - holy well, Cloghvoley, County Mayo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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