Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Doire An Fhéich, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doire An Fhéich
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.29571, -9.54967
- SMR number
- GA078-008----
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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 E side of a road in a quarry. Known locally as Tobar Naomh Phádraig, it consists of a natural spring which has been interfered with by blasting. It is said that the man who did this fell and broke his leg on the same day two years running (info. T. Robinson). Not visited.
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy well2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.