Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ballingarry (dunkellin By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballingarry (dunkellin By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobermacduagh
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobermacduagh
- Coordinates
- 53.18157, -8.63506
- SMR number
- GA105-003001-
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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 S bank of a small stream. This spring well was surrounded by the remains of a rectangular wellhouse (ext. dims. 2.44m E-W; c. 2m N-S) constructed of mortared stone walls (Wth 0.46m-0.53; max. ext. H 0.5m). The S wall was built against the trunk of a mature tree. The entrance (Wth 0.86m), centrally placed in the N wall, was flanked on either side by small square recesses, both of which contained coins. Water flowed from the well, through a stone channel (Wth 0.3m), in a NNE direction before joining the stream. Though open to the sky, the structure may once have been roofed (SMR file, 1954). A cross (GA105-003----) stood c. 5m to the W beside which were a recumbent cross-slab (GA105-003002-) and architectural fragment (GA105-003003-). Faint traces of a hollow to the S of well may mark the line of an older course of the stream. (McCaffrey 1952, 253, no. 23a)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 16 November 2022
Nearby in the register
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.