Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Knock (inishbofin Par.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knock (inishbofin Par.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberflannan
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberflannan
- Coordinates
- 53.61512, -10.18920
- SMR number
- GA009D014004-
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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 SW and SE corners of a rectangular graveyard (GA009D014002-) c. 40m SW of the church (GA009D014001-) and close by a stream. The SW well, correctly Tobar Flannáin (GA009D014004-), consists of a natural spring, dry at time of visit, with a rectangular stone surround. This is centrally placed within a roofless, stone and mortar-built chamber, circular in plan (D 1.95m, H 2m), with a doorway at N and an alcove at E. Though noted by Mason (1950, 50-1), no offerings are now visible. The site of St Colman's Well (GA009D014005-), in SE corner of graveyard, is now marked only by a small unenclosed pool (E-W 0.4m) on the bank of the stream. (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 1, 484; Hardiman 1846, 116)
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
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1927 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Galway collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Typescript in 3 vols. Bray.
Hardiman, J. (ed) 1846 A chorographical description of West or H-Iar Connaught written in A.D. 1684 by Roderic O'Flaherty, Esq. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.