Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Well
Townparks (1st Division - Tuam), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Townparks (1st Division - Tuam)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Jewsharp Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Jewsharp Well
- Coordinates
- 53.51624, -8.85742
- SMR number
- GA029-176----
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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 a stream close to its confluence with the River Nanny in NW suburbs of Tuam town (GA029-199----). Marked on 1st ed. OS 6-inch map but evidently gone by the time of 3rd ed. (1932). No visible surface trace survives. A possible holy well (GA029-175----) lies 125m to ENE.
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Premonstratensian canonsunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.