Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Coolaran, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolaran
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobar Suivne
- Coordinates
- 53.35699, -8.85876
- SMR number
- GA070-043----
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
In low-lying grassland, in an area of outcropping limestone. A D-shaped spring well (E-W 0.9m, N-S 0.4m) within a natural fissure in the limestone; known locally as a holy well.
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
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.