Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Abbeyfield, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Abbeyfield
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Lanferas Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lanferas Well (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.33327, -8.40015
- SMR number
- GA086-001001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 80m to the north-east of Kilconnell Abbey (GA086-001----). Two holy wells are named 'Lanfera's Wells' on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map. By the time of 3rd ed. (1947-8), the words 'Site of' were added to the north-west well. Both wells still survive, the south-eastern one has been covered by a pump-house. This well consists of a natural spring enclosed by a mortared stone wall with access at north-west. Two steps lead down to the water which flows out, via a sluice, at east-north-east to a stream. Another well with the same name (GA086-001003-) lies c. 140m to the south-west.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Updated by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 18 September 2014
Nearby in the register
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- Field systemunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.