Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
An Coillín, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Coillín
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.32926, -9.85667
- SMR number
- GA076-007----
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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 S side of Cnoc an Choillín immediately above the former limits of cultivation. Known locally as Tobar Muire, it consists of a small natural round rock basin with a square cairn built over it on S to form a canopy. Modern offerings are visible in it. According to Mac Giollarnáth (1941), mass was celebrated, and a priest was captured here, in penal times. Not visited. (Robinson 1985, 35)
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
- Signal towerunder 1 mi
- Water mill - horizontal-wheeledunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Leachtunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.