Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Fough West, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fough West
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobernavannia (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.42954, -9.32171
- SMR number
- GA054-031----
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
Between Main St, Oughterard, to S and Owenriff River to N. This well was indicated on 1st ed. of OS but was evidently gone by time of 2nd ed. (1899), when the words 'Site of' were appended. No visible surface trace survives.
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
- Townunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barracksunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.