Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
An Aird Thiar, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Aird Thiar
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.31182, -9.87927
- SMR number
- GA076-003----
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
Below HWM on rocky foreshore close to the mouth of a small inlet called Béal an Chalaidh. Known locally as Tobar Cholmcille, it consists of a small natural pothole on seaweed-covered rock. According to Mac Giollarnáth (1941), it used to have a stone lid which returned of its own accord when thrown into the sea. Not visited. (Robinson 1985, 39)
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
- Burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.