Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Townparks (1st Division - Tuam), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Townparks (1st Division - Tuam)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Priests Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Priests Well
- Coordinates
- 53.51658, -8.85563
- SMR number
- GA029-175----
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
Along a dry stream bed in grassland on W outskirts of Tuam town (GA029-199----). Its name and representation on OS 6-inch maps suggest that this was a holy well. However, it could simply have taken its name from the 'Presbytery' marked on the maps 70m to NE. No visible surface trace survives. A holy well (GA029-177----) lies 160m to SSW, and a named well (GA029-176----) 125m to WSW.
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
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Water mill - vertical-wheeledunder 1 mi
- Kiln - potteryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.