Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Rahoon, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rahoon
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. James Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Jamess Well (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.27401, -9.08914
- SMR number
- GA094-048----
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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
Some 160m NW of, and upslope from, a graveyard. (GA094-049001-). It apparently consists of a natural spring, now incorporated into one of the private gardens of Cruachan Park housing estate where it has been extensively landscaped (info. T. Fanning). Not visited. (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 1, 339)
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.