Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Mannin, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mannin
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Cronans Holy Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Cronans Holy Well
- Coordinates
- 53.20049, -8.74419
- SMR number
- GA104-198----
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 the N side of an SE-NW running roadway, some 50m N of a tower house (GA104-197----). This natural spring well is delimited by a rectangular line of set boulders (5m N-S; 3m E-W), loosely spaced to allow the water to flow through. The well feeds a small pond and stream immediately to the N. On inspection, the enclosed area was partially overgrown and two large ash trees were growing immediately to the W. No votive offerings were visible.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 April 2023
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.