Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Well
Moor (Clare By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moor (Clare By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.30928, -8.84029
- SMR number
- GA083-060004-
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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
Within the SE quadrant of an ecclesiastical enclosure (GA083-060003-) and immediately outside the SE wall of a graveyard (GA083-060002-). This deep well (10m WNW-ESE; 8.3m NNE-SSW; D 5m) is enclosed by a drystone wall. According to local tradition, it supplied water to a village that was located to the S of the enclosure.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 1 March 2017
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Religious house - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.