Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Moyard, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moyard
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberdavin
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberdavin
- Coordinates
- 53.53828, -9.99103
- SMR number
- GA022-056----
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 W side of a track c. 40m NW of a grave site (GA022-057----). This well presently consists of a natural spring set in a recess in the roadside field bank. No offerings are visible and the well is now used for watering cattle in the summer.
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
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.