What is recorded here

Toberhop is a drowned-horse well in Galway bogland, locally named Tobar na gCapaill because tradition holds a horse lost its life in the water. The spring still feeds a collapsed drystone box wide enough for a child to circle, while cattle traffic has broken the wall and scattered its stones. A churchyard and holy well lie close behind it through the marsh, suggesting the area has long given water, life and death in the same breath.

In marsh and bogland. Marked and named in Gothic script on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map but on 3rd ed. (1932), it appears in Roman script. A natural spring well enclosed by a collapsed roughly squared-off drystone wall (L/Wth 3m) which has been badly disturbed by cattle. According to local tradition, a horse drowned here and as a result the well is known locally as 'Tobar na gCapaill'. A CBG (GA047-009----) and a holy well (GA047-007----) lie c. 170m to SW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

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