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
- 53.25006, -9.64243
- SMR number
- GA090-023----
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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
Below HWM c. 180m N of the quay called Céibh an Doirín. It consists of two contiguous holy wells: (a) a natural round pothole (D 0.3m) seen by looking down a crevice in the outer face of a knob of rock; (b) immediately E of the latter, it is said to have a statue-like stone on either side of 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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.