Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ballintober West, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballintober West
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobergrellaun
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobergrellaun
- Coordinates
- 53.25934, -8.45447
- SMR number
- GA098-022----
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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 a ridge in grassland. This very poorly preserved dried-up spring well is dedicated to St. Grellan. It comprises an unroofed subrectangular drystone well chamber (1.65m NE-SW; 1.1m NE-SW), which is built into the townland boundary wall. The entrance is to the W. According to local tradition, the water of the well was used as a general cure for all ailments (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 484).
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 19 December 2022
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1927 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Galway collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Typescript in 3 vols. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.