Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Cloonameragaun, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonameragaun
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Catherines Well
- Coordinates
- 53.30352, -8.31880
- SMR number
- GA087-053004-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pastureland, 70m SE of an ecclesiastical building (GA087-0533001-). This spring well is enclosed by a small roughly D-shaped mortared stone wall (NW-SE 1.6m, NE-SW 1.3m). There is a gap at NE where three steps lead down to the water. Now used for watering livestock.
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
- Memorial stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Bullaun stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.