Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Glencraff, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glencraff
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.57938, -9.74696
- SMR number
- GA011-003----
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On hillside on N side of Glencraff. It consists of a natural spring in an irregular rock cleft under the lower edge of a slanting flagstone. Though there are no signs of offerings, the well is associated locally with a St Craff. There is a hawthorn 10m to NW and a remarkable water-worn flagstone 11m to S (info. T. Robinson). Not visited.
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
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.