Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Gólam, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gólam
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.23000, -9.76632
- SMR number
- GA089-014----
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
In S part of the island c. 130m E of the signal tower (GA089-013----). Known locally as Tobar Cholmcille, it consists of a round pothole in a rock cleft which leads up a small fault-scarp. The saint's footprints are pointed out in the scarp face to N of the well, and to S of it is a broad band of whitish porphyry (a quartz dyke) called Bóthar na Naomh: this is the road the saints took in marching out to Oileáin Árainn (info. T. Robinson). Not visited.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Signal towerunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Chapel2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.