Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Pollacorragune, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pollacorragune
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Benans Well
- Coordinates
- 53.53963, -8.89324
- SMR number
- GA029-134----
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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
Part of the early ecclesiastical remains (GA029-017004-) at Kilbenan; it lies 110m NW of the church (GA029-017002-). A poorly preserved holy well enclosed by a rectangular mortared stone wall (WNW-ESE 2.8m, NNE-SSW 2.2m, H 1.2m) which has collapsed along W half. Entrance in SE wall. A famous 'patrún' was held here on the last Sunday of July until the early 19th C when the parish priest, 'scenting pagan practices', suppressed it (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 448). (Kelly 1901b, 381; O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 12, 91)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Round towerunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.