Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Cloghoge Lower, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghoge Lower
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobermahon
- Coordinates
- 54.06918, -8.36500
- SMR number
- SL040-031----
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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 undulating pasture, at the base of a slope and on the townland boundary between Cloghoge Lower and Carrowkeel. The well consists of an unenclosed shallow hollow (2m x 4m) at the point where a spring flows from the limestone. It was recorded in 1836 as 'Tobar Mhathghamhna (pron. Tobar Mathún)...a fine spring well' (OSL, 157). A possible enclosure (SL040-030----) lies c. 10m to SW and a fulacht fia (SL040-031002-) and a burnt spread (SL040-031003-) lie c. 30m to E.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.