Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Gallonnambraher, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gallonnambraher
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Holy Well
- Coordinates
- 53.86339, -7.17436
- SMR number
- CV039-051----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
A small roughly circular spring well with remains of drystone facing. Situated at the foot of a hillock. A second holy well (CV039-052----) lies 80m to NNE.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Meeting-houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.