Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Eanach Dhúin,Baile Uí Laoigh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Eanach Dhúin,Baile Uí Laoigh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberbrendan
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobar Brendan
- Coordinates
- 53.38561, -9.06842
- SMR number
- GA069-001017-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the td. boundary close to lakeshore, 300m SE of the Augustinian abbey (GA069-001013-). It consists of a natural overgrown oval spring (E-W 2m, N-S 1.5m) bounded by a field wall composed of roughly built limestone blocks. (Cochrane 1901, 319; Fahey 1904, 135; O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 266; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 57)
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
- Causewayunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical residenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.