Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
An Camanach, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Camanach
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberfeheen
- Coordinates
- 53.55509, -9.55928
- SMR number
- GA025-003001-
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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
Some 30m NW of a CBG (GA025-003002-). This well, correctly Tobar Fechín, consists of a natural spring, adjoined on E by a low wedge-shaped drystone platform or leacht (L 1.3m, Wth c. 1m) with four large rounded river pebbles on top of it. Within the well itself is a small wall niche containing modern offerings. (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 43; Hardiman 1846, 121)
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosure1 mi
- Boundary mound2 mi
- Ringfort - cashel2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.