Tobersruhlin

In a hollow in low-lying farmland, immediately SW of the main Galway-Ennis road. A spring is named ‘Tobersruhlin’, in Gothic script, on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map. However, on the 1920 edition, the name is appended to a well c. 30m to the NW. According to the OS Letters (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 312), the name ‘Tobar Sruithlinn’ is ‘locally explained as signifying the well of the little stream’ and it was not ‘a perpetual spring’ as it sometimes dried up. On inspection, it was found that the natural spring fed the well, which was defined by a small drystone well-chamber roofed with one capstone. There were no votive offerings at either location or anything to suggest they were of ritual significance. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 9 May 2023