Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Well
Stonepark (ballymoe By.), County Galway, Ireland
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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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 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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.