Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Clonbern, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonbern
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tubber Keeraun
- Coordinates
- 53.55474, -8.64795
- SMR number
- GA031-017----
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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
Within the demesne of Clonbern Park, close to td. boundary. This well consists of an unenclosed natural spring under a hawthorn tree. Some moss-covered stones lie scattered around. A stream flows S from it. Clonbern Church (GA031-016----) lies 590m to WNW.
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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Architectural featureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.