Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ballygreighan, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballygreighan
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobercahillboght
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobercahillboght
- Coordinates
- 54.24522, -8.79009
- SMR number
- SL012-067001-
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
In pasture, located in wet ground at the base of a N-facing slope. This holy well is named Tobercahillboght on the 1837 and 1913 OS 6-inch maps. It consists of a circular, steep sided hole (diam. 0.55m, D 0.8m) whose sides and floor are lined with stones. It is now dry. It is located 12m to SE of a natural spring, which emerges from the base of the slope and flows N into a small pool. There is a crucifix plaque (SL012-067002-), located within a small circle of stones, 2m E of the stone-lined well.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Crossunder 1 mi
- House - early medievalunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - early medievalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.