Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Cruach Na Cara, County Galway, Ireland
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-
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
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
- Leachtunder 1 mi
- Pillar stoneunder 1 mi
- Clochanunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.