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Ritual site - holy well

Toberelva, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ritual site - holy well, Toberelva, County Roscommon, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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