Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Well
Cruach Na Cara, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cruach Na Cara
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.30426, -9.91758
- SMR number
- GA076-020023-
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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
Located at the SE end of Cruach na Cara/St Macdara’s Island, c. 2.2m to the NE of a ruined house. This well (Wth 1m; L 0.3m; D 0.7m), dry at the time of inspection, may be a domestic well associated with the house. It is roughly triangular in plan; the back wall consists of a massive granite boulder, while the side walls are constructed of smaller boulders. The base is overgrown with grass.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 6 June 2018
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.