Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Clooncree, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clooncree
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Canannaghs Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St Canannags Well
- Coordinates
- 53.55550, -10.03236
- SMR number
- GA022-018----
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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 roadside c. 610m ESE of a church (GA022-012----). This well, correctly Tobar Ceannanach, consists of a natural spring enclosed by a small circular drystone enclosure (D 3.5m) with an entrance at W. There is a small alcove in N wall containing modern offerings. (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 31; Hardiman 1846, 118; Killanin 1954, 97)
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
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Chapelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.