Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Aillebrack, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aillebrack
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Well of the Seven Daughters
- Latest-edition OS map
- Well of the Seven Daughters
- Coordinates
- 53.41519, -10.11864
- SMR number
- GA049-001----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1841 · 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 low-lying area close to NW foot of Doon Hill. Recorded by O'Flaherty in 1684 as 'a well in memory of the seaven [sic] daughters' (Hardiman 1846, 109), it consists of a small spring delimited by a low rectangular grass-covered wall (2m by 1.8m) opening to N. Modern offerings are visible. (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 98; 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
- Designed landscape - follyunder 1 mi
- Signal towerunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.