Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ceathrú An Chaisleáin, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ceathrú An Chaisleáin
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Cyprians Well
- Coordinates
- 53.37922, -9.01074
- SMR number
- GA069-013002-
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 low-lying ground, c. 40m SE of a castle (GA069-013001-). A natural spring well set in a drystone circular enclosure (D 1.6m) with a narrow entrance at E. The small stone-lined rectangular well lies in W sector of the enclosure.
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
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- House - vernacular houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.