Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
St Brendan'S Or Cregganagrogy, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- St Brendan'S Or Cregganagrogy
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Brendans Grave and Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Brendans Well
- Coordinates
- 53.52821, -8.39472
- SMR number
- GA032-043----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Some 50m N of a CBG (GA032-006----). Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as 'St. Brendan's Grave and Well'.
On inspection in July 1984, two holy wells were recorded here: (a, GA032-043----) a natural spring, dried up at the time of visit, enclosed by a circular drystone wall (D 1.15m) with an entrance at W, and (b, GA032-043001-) 1m to S, another dried-up spring well enclosed by a square mortared wall (L/Wth 2.5m) with an entrance at SE. A stone-lined overflow channel ran beneath the entrance. The 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1931) depicted a circular pathway surrounding the wells, no visible surface of it trace survived. Some 7m to the W, a 17/18th-C inscribed limestone slab (GA032-043002-), depicting a crucifixion, reputedly marked the grave of St Brendan. The wells and slab subsequently underwent some works up by a local group. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 108-9)
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).
Updated by: Olive Alcock
Date of revised upload: 26 June 2023
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Headstoneunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.