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
- 53.25656, -9.65495
- SMR number
- GA090-024----
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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
On SE shore of Loch Tan. Known locally as Tobairín Naomh Anna, it consists of a natural triangular hollow (L/Wth 0.3m) caused by erosion where three fissures meet. There is a small shrine beside the well and two oval enclosures with little flower gardens, all built by a woman in memory of her daughter. Frequented on 26th July (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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy well1 mi
- Crannog1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.