Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Cill Bhreacáin, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cill Bhreacáin
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberbrickan
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberbrickan
- Coordinates
- 53.35852, -9.62744
- SMR number
- GA065-007003-
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
Some 4m S of a church (GA065-007001-). Known locally as Tobar Bhriocáin (pers. comm. T. Robinson), this well is a natural spring, dry at time of visit, which emerges from the base of a large rock. It is delimited by a low D-shaped drystone wall, and a large number of modern offerings are visible on a flat stone above the well. (Killanin 1947, 125-6)
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
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Burial ground1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.