Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Cruach Na Caoile, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cruach Na Caoile
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Keelans Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Keelans Well
- Coordinates
- 53.32393, -9.96952
- SMR number
- GA076-005002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Some 10m SSE of a church (GA076-005001-). This well, correctly Tobar Cáillín, is indicated on 1st and 2nd eds of OS 6-inch map. Not visited. (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 139)
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
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Leacht3 mi
- Pillar stone3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.