Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Kilglassan, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilglassan
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberglassan
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberglassan
- Coordinates
- 53.62918, -9.07161
- SMR number
- MA119-005----
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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
Located just above the base of a gentle SE-facing slope in undulating good grazing land. An E−W field wall lies immediately to S.
Named ‘Toberglassan’ on the 1838 and 1915 OS 6-inch maps. A subcircular sunken area (2.6m N−S; 3m E−W; D 0.7m) faced with rough drystone walling. The entrance or access point appears to have been on the W side. Remnants of a drystone wall (Wth 0.5m; H 0.5m) border the S edge of the well, and at the top outer edge on the E−SE side there is a low sod-covered bank of earth and stone, with a mature ash tree growing out of it. The roots of the tree are probably responsible for the collapse of the well wall on that side.
The well was dry at time of visit, partly filled with displaced stones, and obscured by brambles and a fallen branch.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 31st May 2023
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.