Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Belderny South, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Belderny South
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberanaltoir
- Coordinates
- 53.44814, -8.45398
- SMR number
- GA060-013----
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
On marshy ground immediately N of a small stream which marks the td. and P. boundaries. An unroofed small rectangular concrete chamber, with a gate at S, contains a spring well 1.2m deep. No votive offerings were noted and the well is not marked on the 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map. Circa 100m to SE is an anomalous stone group (GA060-105----), known locally as a penal mass rock. Both monuments may be associated.
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
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 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.