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Ritual site - holy well

Cnoc An Daimh, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ritual site - holy well, Cnoc An Daimh, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Cnoc An Daimh
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.40809, -9.62375
SMR number
GA052-001----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

On rough hillside c. 420m NE of Loch na hAibhne Gairbhe. Known locally as Tobar na gCreigeán or An Tobar Beannaithe (GA052-001----), it consists of a natural irregular hollow (bullaun) in a rock outcrop with a small drystone-built stone shrine over it on which are wooden crosses and coins. Six small cairns (H c. 0.5m), probably penitential stations (GA052-001001-), are visible on boulders nearby: there used to be more until a priest destroyed them a generation or two ago (info. T. Robinson). Not visited.

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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