Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Chapel Island, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Chapel Island
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Caillins Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St Caillins Well (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.39894, -10.20979
- SMR number
- GA048-003002-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Some 20m ENE of an oratory (GA048-003001-) at E end of the island. This well, correctly Tobar Caíllín, was noted by O'Flaherty in 1684 (Hardiman 1846, 109-10) and shown on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map. Evidently destroyed by time of 2nd ed. (1899), when the words 'Site of are appended. No visible surface trace survives. (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 99; Killanin 1954, 94)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Lighthouseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.