Tobermaconry, holy well in County Galway

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What is recorded here

On scrubland overlooking shore, c. 200m S of coast road on W outskirts of Galway city. This well, correctly Tobar Mac Conraoi(?), is indicated on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map on the side of a laneway running to seashore. Evidently destroyed by time of 3rd ed. (1945), when the words 'in Ruins' and cross symbol for 'Site of' are appended. No visible surface trace survives. I - West Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA094-020

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