Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Boherduff, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Boherduff
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Columbkilles Holy Wells
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Columbkilles Holy Wells
- Coordinates
- 53.19284, -8.64347
- SMR number
- GA105-029003-
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
Located in the NE corner of a graveyard (GA105-029002-) associated with a church (GA105-029001-). Holy wells named ‘St. Columbkille’s Holy Wells’ on the OS 6-inch maps consist of two conjoined wells. The most northerly one (GA105-029003-) is oval in plan (L 1.36m; Wth 1.15m; D 1.2m) and defined by a low wall. The southerly well (GA105-029004-) is subrectanular in plan (L 1m; Wth 0.8m; D 0.9m) and is also defined by a wall. Both are overgrown with brambles and trees. A children’s burial ground lies c. 10m to the E. (McCaffrey 1952, 254)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 27 January 2020
References
McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.