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Well

Stonepark (Ballymoe By.), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Well, Stonepark, 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
Stonepark (Ballymoe By.)
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.41581, -8.70524
SMR number
GA058-098----

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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 a terrace in rough pastureland sloping to the S, some outcropping limestone is visible. This well recently came to light when the landowner investigated a hollow in the ground. It is now surrounded by a recently built roughly oval-shaped rubble wall (av. Wth 0.7m; int. H 0.85m; ext. H 0.65-1m) capped with cement and is accessed by a step over style (Wth 0.6; H 0.4m) at W. The well itself is roughly funnel shaped. Its base (1.26m N-S; 0.76m av. dim. E-W) is 1.5m below ground level and it is lined with a randomly coursed drystone wall that fans outwards as it rises towards the surface (dims. at ground level 3.1m E-W; 1.55m N-S). Just inside the style, in the neck of the funnel (L 1.6m), the sides of which are straight, two rough steps lead down to the water. Traces of a relict field system (GA058-099002-) are visible c. 15m to the NNE.

The following images have been uploaded:
GA058-098----_01.jpg General view of well from W
GA058-098----_02.jpg View of wall lining well from W
GA058-098----_03.jpg View of wall lining well from N
GA058-098----_07.jpg Well from W

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 29 November 2022

Nearby in the register

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

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