Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Eglish, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Eglish
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobernapearla
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobernabearla or the Seven Wells
- Coordinates
- 53.13493, -7.87239
- SMR number
- OF030-017----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
A slight depression just beside a small stream probably indicates the location of the destroyed well. (O' Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 7)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.