Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ballintober (carra By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballintober (carra By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tober Patrick
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tober Patrick
- Coordinates
- 53.75532, -9.28173
- SMR number
- MA099-007001-
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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 low-lying marshy ground, 100m SE of Ballintober Abbey (MA089-058004-). A natural spring which flows along a ditch. No visible masonry. Now known as Tobermore.
The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 643.
Date of upload: 22 January 2013
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Augustinian canonsunder 1 mi
- Inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.