Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Doocreggaun, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doocreggaun
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Commadans Holy Well
- Coordinates
- 53.28569, -8.31954
- SMR number
- GA087-064----
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 gently undulating marshland. A poorly preserved well, dry at the time of visit, dedicated to St Commadan. It is enclosed by a rectangular drystone-built wall (NE-SW; L 2m, Wth 1.5m) on W, N and E sides and is open to S. No steps are evident at the entrance but the floor here is paved with limestone flags. A hawthorn tree is growing at SW. According to OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 566), stations were performed here on Sundays.
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Monumental structureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.