Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Gort An Chalaidh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gort An Chalaidh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberbreedia
- Coordinates
- 53.37084, -9.15910
- SMR number
- GA068-017----
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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
In a hollow on roadside c. 500m S of Gortachallia Lough. This well, correctly Tobar Bríd, consists of a natural spring, completely overgrown, bounded by a modern rectangular wall. It feeds a small stream running towards NW.
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
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.