Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
An Aird Thoir, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Aird Thoir
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.31753, -9.86515
- SMR number
- GA076-002----
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 W side of Cuan na hAirde just below HWM on a rocky shore c. 100m N of a small quay. It consists of a small natural pothole associated with St Columcille. Not visited. (Robinson 1985, 38)
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
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.