Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Killallaghtan, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killallaghtan
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberallaghtan
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberallaghtan (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.26723, -8.36461
- SMR number
- GA099-113----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In a large marshy depression adjacent to a field boundary, 235m NE of a church (GA099-114001-). Apart from one or two dressed stones projecting from the field boundary, no visible surface trace survives. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 646)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.