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
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.26171, -9.67869
- SMR number
- GA090-015----
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 a rock outcrop in wet bogland 100m S of the track from Tír an Fhia to Na hUaiminí. Known locally as Tobairín Ghleann an Uisce, it consists of a natural triangular hole (L/Wth 0.45m) in the rock, surrounded by a little ring of stones and small wooden stakes. Various modern offerings lie scattered around it (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 wellunder 1 mi
- Mill - cornunder 1 mi
- Crannog1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.