Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Kanrawer, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kanrawer
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Well of the Seven Daughters
- Coordinates
- 53.60529, -10.03300
- SMR number
- GA009-016----
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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
On the townland boundary in a shallow valley c. 120m NNE of a church of the same name (GA009-004----). Known locally as Tobar na Seacht nlníon, it consists of a natural spring, revetted by stone, and covered by a flat circular stone. A number of coins are visible within it. The OS Letters state that 'There was formerly at this well a flag stone called Leac na seacht n-inghion... which was made the same use of as Leac Féichin [see GA026-009----; i.e. a cursing stone]...but some of the clergy caused it to be buried under ground “for special weighty reasons” ' (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 27). (Killanin 1954, 99-100; Tully Cross I.C.A. 1985, 7-8)
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
- Cursing stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.