What is recorded here

Eoghanacht is a small townland in County Galway where a missing cross-slab once marked the holy well Toberanspiritneeve. O’Donovan drew it as a low rectangular stone with a Latin cross, its top spreading slightly and a diamond-shaped knot where the arms met the shaft. That drawing preserves what the field has lost, leaving the well beside an absent marker and a Christian shape floating in memory.

This cross-slab once stood at the holy well 'Toberanspiritneeve' (GA110-023004-). An illustration by O’Donovan indicates that it was a small subrectangular cross-slab bearing a Latin cross with open ends. The upper terminal splayed slightly and the area at the junction of the arms and shaft was lozenge shaped (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 3, 392). The cross-slab is missing. (Waddell 1973, 23, no. 17; Higgins 1987, vol. 2, 333, no. 59) Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 8 March 2016

This cross-slab likely dates to the early medieval period, associated with Christian worship or pilgrimage at the holy well. It may have served as a marker for sacred space or as a votive offering linked to local religious practices.

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