Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Cluain Duibh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cluain Duibh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Patricks Well
- Coordinates
- 53.33172, -9.14981
- SMR number
- GA081-004----
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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
On roadside c. 410m N of a church (GA081-005001-). It consists of an unenclosed natural spring in a rock cleft. (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 379; Killanin 1947, 122)
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.