Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Cleggan, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cleggan
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobernaseachtinnean
- Coordinates
- 53.57331, -10.11691
- SMR number
- GA009-006001-
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
By a shingle beach at the head of Port, a small bay on N side of Cleggan Head. Known locally as Tobar Na Seacht nlníon, it consists of a small natural spring enclosed by a roughly square drystone wall (L/Wth 2m) with an entrance at NW. There is an alcove in S wall containing modern offerings. Immediately to SSE is a ruinous circular structure (D c. 2m) marked on OS 6-inch map as 'Monument'; possibly a leacht or a small shelter for visitors.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Monumental structureunder 1 mi
- Signal towerunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - court tombunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassified1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.