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At a glance
- TypeRitual site - holy well
What to look for
- Cross or cross-slab
Picked out from the Archaeological Survey description below.
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- No source says it is open to the public.Most monuments in Ireland stand on private farmland.
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History and description
Some 20m N of a round tower (GA119-006005-) at the foot of a low limestone outcrop. Named 'Dabhach Éinné, Dolium Endei' in OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 347), it is known locally as Tobar Éinne.
Full archaeological record 93 words
Some 20m N of a round tower (GA119-006005-) at the foot of a low limestone outcrop. Named 'Dabhach Éinné, Dolium Endei' in OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 347), it is known locally as Tobar Éinne. It consists of a natural spring, delimited by drystone walls (E-W 0.95m) and roofed with lintels, which opens to E. A roughly rectangular drystone altar or leacht (L 1.6m, Wth 1.1m, H 0.9m), surmounted by a modern cross slab, stands 1m to N (see GA119-006002-). Another holy well (GA119-006003-) lies c. 40m to NE. (Westropp 1895, 263)
References
- Date of revised upload: 4 November 2021
- This monument was taken into Ownership under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 - National Monument 43.
Archaeological Survey of Ireland, National Monuments Service (CC BY 4.0) · Compiled by Olive Alcock · Based on the Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling. It describes the site as it was when surveyed.
Folklore and traditions
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