Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Cooloorta, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cooloorta
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Kevins Well (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.45492, -8.67858
- SMR number
- GA044-041----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 farmland. This very poorly preserved well, dedicated to St Kevin, consists of a circular hollow (D 2m), filled with earth and stone, enclosed by an earthen bank from S through W to N.
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
- Designed landscape - folly1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.