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
- Coordinates
- 53.33247, -8.40166
- SMR number
- GA086-001003-
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 45m SW of Kilconnell Abbey (GA086-001----). A small natural spring, flowing NNE from a hillside, covered by an overgrown stone lintel supported by low walls.
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).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Franciscan friarsunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.