Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
An Cheathrú Rua Theas, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Cheathrú Rua Theas
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.23514, -9.61861
- SMR number
- GA090-006----
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
Known locally as Tobairán an Mhuláin. Near LWM on E shore at the mouth of Cuan an Fhir Mhóir. The location indicated on OS 6-inch maps is wrong: the well lies c. 80m to S of it on the foreshore. It consists of a natural oval basin (0.5m by 0.4m) on W side of a gully. A fish in it (Donnánach) is reputed to answer simple questions about an absent loved one: it swims upside down if the person in question is dead (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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy well1 mi
- Burial ground1 mi
- Ritual site - holy well1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.