Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Coolmurly, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolmurly
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberglasny
- Coordinates
- 54.08289, -8.24374
- SMR number
- SL035-099----
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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 the N side of a field boundary and c. 10m NE of a rath (SL035-100----). This holy well is now closed-in, overgrown with vegetation and dry since a new well was dug slightly downhill. It was recorded in 1836 as 'Tobar na Glaise from the enchanted cow called Glaisín that used to regale herself at this well' (OSL, 243).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005).
Date of upload: 18 January 2008
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - pondunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.