Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Kilmore (dunmore By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmore (dunmore By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Creevaghbaun Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Creevaghbaun Well
- Coordinates
- 53.49258, -8.76536
- SMR number
- GA044-073001-
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
Some 100m E of Creevaghbaun Church (GA044-047002-). Well-preserved subcircular well (N-S 1.2m) dedicated to St Bridget (Topgr. Files, NMI.). It is enclosed by a mortared stone wall with an entrance at S. Two small wall niches are visible to E of the entrance. A plaque depicting a woman carved in relief, dated 1710, is set into the inner wall-face at N. A possible sweathouse (GA044-073002-) lies c. 5m to S. (Cochrane 1901, 340)
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). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Revised by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 29 September 2015
Nearby in the register
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.