Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Claretuam, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Claretuam
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Michaels Well (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.49564, -8.90351
- SMR number
- GA043-038----
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 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: 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
In a garden adjacent to a farmhouse. A natural spring well, dedicated to St Michael the Archangel, enclosed by a crescentic-shaped mortared stone wall (L 4m, Wth 2.7m). Access via two flag steps at E. According to OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 126), the well originally lay closer to a church (GA043-037----).
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).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.