Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Gortmorris, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortmorris
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Michaels Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Michaels Well
- Coordinates
- 53.63162, -8.40351
- SMR number
- GA007-068002-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In NE quadrant of an early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA007-068001-). All that is visible is a partially overgrown irregular hollow (E-W 5m, N-S 3m), dry at time of visit, with some thorn trees growing in it.
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
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.