Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Well
Athenry, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Athenry
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Spa Well (Chalybeate)
- Coordinates
- 53.29718, -8.74449
- SMR number
- GA084-001016-
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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
In flat pastureland c. 60m to the E of the Clarin River and within the medieval walled town of Athenry (GA084-001----). Named 'Spa Well (Chalybeate)' on the 1933 edition of the OS 6-inch map, this well is known locally as the 'Pan Well' because its base consists of a subcircular stone basin (0.53m N-S; 0.51 E-W; D 0.13). It is enclosed by a circular drystone wall (diam. 0.68m H 0.4m), one to three courses high, and the outlet is to the SW. Another well (GA084-001017-) lies c. 168m to the SSW.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 13 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.