Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Well
Gortnaporia, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortnaporia
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.45714, -9.02798
- SMR number
- GA042-145----
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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 flat pastureland. Indicated as a small circular feature on the 1914 revision of the OS 6-inch map and named 'Well' OS 1:2500 plan (surveyed 1912-16), it consists of a watering hole.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 8 October 2014
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.