Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Leitreach Ard, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Leitreach Ard
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.35581, -9.87674
- SMR number
- GA063-014----
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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
Below HWM in a small inlet c. 130m SW of point where the td. boundary meets the coast. Known locally as Tobar Cholmcille, it was noted by O'Flaherty in 1684 (Hardiman 1846, 63). It consists of a smooth cylindrical hollow (D 0.18m) in a slanting rock. It is widely known and much frequented on 9th June. Not visited. (Robinson 1985, 43; O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 149, 151)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Cairn - wayside cairnunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.