Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Kill (Ballindoon Par.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kill (Ballindoon Par.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberflannann
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberflannann
- Coordinates
- 53.48022, -10.07145
- SMR number
- GA035-048003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1841 · 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
On shore of Lough Nakilla c. 30m SW of a church (GA035-048001-). This well, correctly Tobar Fhlannáin, consists of a natural spring delimited by an oval earth and stone enclosure (2.8m by 2.25m) with an entrance at N. Some modern offerings are visible. (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 101; Hardiman 1846, 111; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 165)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Leachtunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy/saint's stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.