Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Killary, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killary
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobernagapple
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobernagapple
- Coordinates
- 53.78835, -6.66005
- SMR number
- ME012-047----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located at the bottom of a N-facing slope and c. 400m SE of Killary church (ME012-020----). This is annotated as ‘Tobernagapple’ (Horse well) in gothic lettering on the 1836 and 1908 editions of the OS 6-inch map, but John O’Donovan writing in 1836 (Herity 2001, 46) mentions only one well in relation to the church. From the maps it would appear to have been built into a field bank and is the origin of a canalised SSE-NNW stream with St Toole’s Well c. 80m to the NNW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 3 August 2022
References
Herity, M. (ed.) 2001 Ordnance Survey Letters: Meath. Dublin. Four Masters Press
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.