Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Tír An Fhia, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tír An Fhia
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.27291, -9.64825
- SMR number
- GA090-016----
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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
Below HWM to SW of an inlet called Crompán na Muice, on W side of Cuan an Fhir Mhóir. Known locally as Tobairín Charraig Mhurchú, it consists of a natural round pothole in the rock (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
- Children's burial ground1 mi
- Burial1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.