Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Bearna (gaillimh), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bearna (gaillimh)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberenda
- Coordinates
- 53.25618, -9.13184
- SMR number
- GA093-003001-
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
On E side of a byroad directly opposite a church (GA093-003002-). This well, correctly Tobar Éinne, consists of a natural spring in a rock fissure at E end of a small modern rectangular enclosure. Some 1.5m to SSW of it is a small stone cairn surmounted by a modern cross (GBCAS Files). (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 1, 345)
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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.