Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Bunatober, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bunatober
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Doaghcoona
- Latest-edition OS map
- Doaghcoona
- Coordinates
- 53.43074, -9.02036
- SMR number
- GA056-034002-
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
In low-lying marshy ground to E of a small stream. A small semicircular well (E-W 1.57, N-S 0.6m) enclosed by a mortared stone wall and accessible via an entrance gap and step at SE. According to local information, a bishop who resided in the vicinity of the well used its water to baptise children. An inscribed slab, 'Kirwan 1706', (GA056-034001-) leans against E side.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.