Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Leitir Mealláin, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Leitir Mealláin
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.22972, -9.75966
- SMR number
- GA089-023----
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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
On rocks below HWM at SW tip of Leitir Mealláin. Known locally as Tobar na Caillí, it consists of a natural pothole, discovered, according to local tradition, by a woman from Bó Bhrocháin who had dreamed she would be cured of pains in the bones at this spot. Between this well and another c. 310m to SE (GA089-020----) are two porphyry (quartz) dykes running / N-S, regarded as the roads the saints took to Oileáin Árann (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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Signal towerunder 1 mi
- Chapel1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.