Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Townparks (2nd Division - Tuam), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Townparks (2nd Division - Tuam)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Abbey Well
- Coordinates
- 53.51502, -8.85634
- SMR number
- GA029-177----
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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
In NW suburbs of Tuam town (GA029-199----), 100m NNE of the 'Abbey of the Holy Trinity' (GA029-178----); formerly in level marshy grassland but now surrounded by a housing estate. Well-preserved spring well defined by a circular cemented limestone wall, capped by a series of limestone blocks and opening out to S. Access is gained via a series of steps. It may have been associated with the abbey. Another possible holy well (GA029-175----) lies 160m to NNE.
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
- Religious house - Premonstratensian canonsunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.