Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Memorial stone
Corrafaireen, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corrafaireen
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.39576, -8.73103
- SMR number
- GA071-023003-
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
Within a graveyard (GA071-023001-). A circular spring well (GA071-023002-), dedicated to St Patrick, is situated in the NE corner of a drystone-built well-chamber (L/Wth 2.5m). A step at S leads down to the water. On the E wall, a plaque (H 0.7m, Wth 0.5m) depicting St Patrick standing on a snake and holding a double-armed cross bears the following inscription: PRAY.FOR / FA.THOM / AS.KIEGH / RY.WH / O.MADE / THIS.IMA / GE.IN.REME / MBRANCE / 1688 (pers. comm. H. Carey).
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 24 October 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.