Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Clare, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clare
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Michaels Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Michaels Well
- Coordinates
- 53.42770, -9.32957
- SMR number
- GA054-015----
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
To N of the Owenriff River on W outskirts of Oughterard. According to O'Flaherty, this well 'was discovered by revelation about the year 1654' (Hardiman 1846, 53). It consists of a natural spring, dry at the time of visit, delimited by a D-shaped drystone wall (3.2m by 2m) opening towards NNE. There is a modern alcove on NNW side but the whole structure is now dilapidated and overgrown. (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 143a, 143g; Kelly 1897, 379; Killanin 1947, 124)
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
The following image was uploaded: GA054-015----_01.jpg
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.