Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
An Chorr Riabhach, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Chorr Riabhach
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Cuthberts Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Cuthberts Well
- Coordinates
- 53.46274, -9.35869
- SMR number
- GA040-006----
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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 woodland on the S side of a drumlin close to a stream and c. 50m to the N of a burial ground (GA040-007----). This holy well is roughly subcircular in plan (dim. 1m; D 0.4m) and is defined by an arc of small boulders with traces of walling at W and N (max. H 0.4m) where it is set into the slope. It appears to have a stone base and it opens to the S. It is still in use and votive offerings include small statues (information from M. Gibbons). (Gosling 1993, 177)
Compiled by: Olive Alcock with information supplied by M. Gibbons
Date of upload: 15 March 2021
References
Gosling, P. (compiler) 1993 Archaeological inventory of County Galway, vol. 1: West Galway. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.