Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Kiltullagh North, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kiltullagh North
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- St Johns Well
- Coordinates
- 53.28314, -8.65051
- SMR number
- GA085-059----
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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
Some 20m NE of a rath (GA085-059----), E of a stream, in rough pastureland. This well consists of a dry partially rubble-filled hollow enclosed by a poorly preserved D-shaped mortared stone wall (3.1m E-W; 2.3m N-S; H 1.5m max; Wth 0.6m). A gap (Wth 0.9m) at the N may be original. On a block (c. 0.3m by 0.3m) set in the wall at E an inscription dedicated to St John and dated 1714 is visible. On inspection the area was overgrown and piles of large stones had been dumped about the site. Current aerial imagery (OSi Digitalglobe (2011-2013) indicates that a number of trees are growing here now and forestry plantations lie to the NE and SW. (Cody 1989, 333-5, no. 149).
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of Upload: 12 April 2023
References
Cody, E. 1989 An archaeological survey of the barony of Athenry, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, University College Galway.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.