Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Dawros More, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dawros More
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.56139, -9.95088
- SMR number
- GA023-005----
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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 a rocky ridge in the bogland NW of Letterfrack village. Associated locally with St Ceannannach, it consists of a natural spring with a few stones arranged around it. The marks of the saint's fist, hand and knee are pointed out on the exposed rock on W side of the well (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
- Chapelunder 1 mi
- Cairn - wayside cairnunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.