What is recorded here
Just N of a graveyard (GA023-023002-) and within Connemara National Park. This well, correctly Tobar MaOilean, consists of a natural spring, now enclosed within a small rectangular 19th-C well-house (L 1.9m, Wth 1.6m, H 0.9m) of red brick, with a gabled roof of large slabs and a doorway in W wall. It was built to supply water to Kylemore Castle (pers. comm. T. Robinson). Reputedly associated with a St Maol or Maol Roc (Tully Cross I.C.A. 1985, 9): however, a maoilean is a ridge or rounded summit, so this may be a recent invention (pers. comm. T. Robinson). I - West Galway'.
Just N of a graveyard (GA023-023002-) and within Connemara National Park. This well, correctly Tobar MaOilean, consists of a natural spring, now enclosed within a small rectangular 19th-C well-house (L 1.9m, Wth 1.6m, H 0.9m) of red brick, with a gabled roof of large slabs and a doorway in W wall. It was built to supply water to Kylemore Castle (pers. comm. T. Robinson). Reputedly associated with a St Maol or…
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA023-023001
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