Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Killeen (ballynahinch By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeen (ballynahinch By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Fechins Holy Well
- Coordinates
- 53.46183, -9.85706
- SMR number
- GA036-008----
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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 E bank of an Abhainn Mhór near its outflow from Ballynahinch Lake, and c. 70m N of a graveyard (GA036-039----). This well, correctly Tobar Feichín, was noted by O'Flaherty in 1684 (Hardiman 1846, 106). It is a natural spring with a circular drystone surround (D 1.5m) and an entrance at S. (Killanin 1954, 101)
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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.