Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Bullaun (clare By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bullaun (clare By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tober Patrick
- Coordinates
- 53.41053, -8.84079
- SMR number
- GA057-051----
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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
On E-facing slope of a slight rise. A spring well contained within an unroofed circular drystone chamber (D c. 2.25m) with a narrow entrance (Wth 0.3m) at N. Some collapse has occurred along E. Traditionally used as a penitential station.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.