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Ritual site - holy well

Cruach Na Cara, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ritual site - holy well, Cruach Na Cara, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Cruach Na Cara
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Holy Well
Latest-edition OS map
Holy Well
Coordinates
53.30504, -9.91725
SMR number
GA076-020017-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 65m N of the church (GA076-020001-). According to the OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 78), this well was dedicated to 'Saint Mac Dara and much venerated by people of the neighbouring shores'. On inspection in August 1984 it could not be located. It may have been a small natural spring that had dried up. (Hardiman 1846, 98; Robinson 1985, 32)

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). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Updated by: Olive Alcock

Date of revised upload: 1 June 2018

References

Hardiman, J. (ed) 1846 A chorographical description of West or H-Iar Connaught written in A.D. 1684 by Roderic O'Flaherty, Esq. Dublin.

Robinson, T. 1985 Mapping South Connemara, parts 1-29, Cashal, Carna, Cill Chiarain. Roundstone.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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