Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Cill Chiaráin, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cill Chiaráin
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.31385, -9.73970
- SMR number
- GA077-018----
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
On a stony hillside overlooking Cuan Cill Chiaráin to E. Known locally as Tobar Muire, it consists of a small irregular hollow in a rock outcrop, with a drystone canopy (H 1.1m) on W side. A few metres NE is a rectangular patch (E-W c. 2m) of small boulders, possibly the remains of a 'leaba'. To N is a granite boulder (H 0.8m) which is said to have reappeared there after being thrown into the sea. (Robinson 1985, 55)
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
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Shrineunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.