Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Leitir Deiscirt, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Leitir Deiscirt
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.32403, -9.84439
- SMR number
- GA076-010----
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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
Close to the head of a minute inlet c. 0.5km W of Carna village. Known locally as Tobar na Seacht nIníon (pers. comm. T. Robinson), it consists of a natural smooth hole in the shape of an inverted pyramid (L/Wth c. 0.4m), on the crest of a rock scarp. A cleft in the rock forms a flight of little steps up to the well, which is now blocked by vegetation. Some round pebbles and pennies are visible. A small subrectangular drystone leacht (L 2.2m, Wth 1.3m, H 0.6m) lies 20m to SE.
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
- Leachtunder 1 mi
- Chapelunder 1 mi
- Signal towerunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.