Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Toberelva, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Toberelva
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberelva
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberelva
- Coordinates
- 53.75883, -8.32809
- SMR number
- RO027-029003-
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
On a slight S-facing slope. Tober Elva, a rectangular well (dims 1.45m x 1.2m) surrounded by a masonry wall with a gate at W is c. 30m W of church (RO027-029001-). The well is listed in the Register of Clonmacnoise (O'Donovan 1856-7, 451), and the well had an eye cure (Gormley 1989, 61). The church and well were conserved in the 1990s.
See the attached view from the W.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Gormley, M. (compiler) 1989b Tulsk parish in historic Maigh Ai. Aspects of its history and folklore. Journal of the Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Society 2, 61-2.
O'Donovan, J. 1856-7 The Registry of Clonmacnoise: with notes and introductory remarks. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 4, 444-60.
Nearby in the register
- Crucifixion plaqueunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.