Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Knocknacarragh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocknacarragh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobermaconry
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobermaconry (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.25732, -9.10464
- SMR number
- GA094-020----
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 scrubland overlooking shore, c. 200m S of coast road on W outskirts of Galway city. This well, correctly Tobar Mac Conraoi(?), is indicated on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map on the side of a laneway running to seashore. Evidently destroyed by time of 3rd ed. (1945), when the words 'in Ruins' and cross symbol for 'Site of' are appended. No visible surface trace survives.
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
- Water mill - horizontal-wheeledunder 1 mi
- Hilltop enclosureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.