Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Foher, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Foher
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.60956, -9.83132
- SMR number
- GA011-010----
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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 S side of track leading E from Salrock Pass. Known locally as St Joseph's Well, it consists of a small, roughly rectangular, water-filled hollow delimited by small fliat blocks of stone. Some coins are visible, as are the remnants of a small cairn immediately 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
- Cairn - wayside cairnunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.