Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
An Máimín, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Máimín
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.23239, -9.71184
- SMR number
- GA089-028----
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
At HWM on SW side of a small island called Oileán Ros na nEas. Known locally as Tobairín Rí an Domhnaigh, it consists of a natural pothole (D 0.3m) in W-facing slope of a ridge of rock. Also known as Tobar an Oileáin and Tobar Cholmcille, and frequented on 9 June (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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.