Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Kiltormer East, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kiltormer East
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberpatrick
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberpatrick
- Coordinates
- 53.23606, -8.26789
- SMR number
- GA099-123----
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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 flat low-lying grassland. This natural spring well (D 0.65m) is dedicated to St Patrick. It is enclosed by a low rectangular drystone wall (1.95m E-W; 1.3m N-S; H 0.6m). On inspection it was overgrown by grass and there was no indication that it was still in use as a holy well. The OS Letters state that a pattern was held here on the first Sunday in August, Garland Sunday (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 2, 113). However, details from The Schools’ Collection (https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4583336/4580677/4587536 last accessed 29 March 2023) indicate that the pattern was held on the last Sunday of August, with stations taking place three Fridays before it.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of Upload: 12 April 2023
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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.