Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Well
Arm, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Arm
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobershanbally
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobershanbally
- Coordinates
- 53.76231, -8.51055
- SMR number
- RO026-037002-
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
Marked on the 1837 and 1929 eds of the OS 6-inch map and described as 'Tobershanbally', meaning Oldtown Well. in gothic lettering on both. It is situated on a gentle SW-facing slope. There is no trace of the well Tobershanbally, or any indication that it was a holy well, at the site of the chapel of Oldtown (RO026-037001-).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.