Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
High Island, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- High Island
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Brian Borus Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Brian Borus Well
- Coordinates
- 53.54547, -10.25734
- SMR number
- GA021-026006-
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
Close to highest point about midway along the island. Noted by O'Flaherty in 1684 as being dedicated to 'Brian Boramy (King of Ireland)' (Hardiman 1846, 115) and said to have run red at the time of his death (info. T. Robinson). It consists today of a natural hollow at the foot of a mass of bare rock which is delimited by a small, roughly square (L/Wth 1.15m) dry stone enclosure with an entrance at N. Though noted in some numbers by Macalister (1896a, 204-5), no offerings are now visible. A cross-slab (GA021-026007-) decorated on both faces lies beside it. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 3, 77)
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
The following image has been uploaded: GA021-026006-_02.JPG View from N
References
Hardiman, J. (ed) 1846 A chorographical description of West or H-Iar Connaught written in A.D. 1684 by Roderic O'Flaherty, Esq. Dublin.
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.
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.