Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Garrynagry, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garrynagry
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St Augustines Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St Augustines Well (1921)
- Coordinates
- 52.84120, -9.10423
- SMR number
- CL033-043----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
At the bottom of a W-facing slope, and just on the E bank of a SE-NW stream. A circular drystone well (diam. 0.9m) with a concrete superstructure which houses offerings. The well is open to the W and there are six white-painted pebbles at the opening. The well is surrounded by a gravel path that is becoming overgrown, and is within a rectangular enclosure (int. dims. 14.4m NW-SE; 12.75m NE-SW) defined by a hedge, with some mature conifer trees inside the perimeter. Locally, it is thought to have a cure for eye complaints and to have a pattern in September or October.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 31 May 2016
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.