Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Loughrea, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Loughrea
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Bridgets Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Bridgets Well
- Coordinates
- 53.19987, -8.56054
- SMR number
- GA105-049004-
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
Some 115m to the SW of a church (GA105-049002-). This spring well is delimited by a sunken pear-shaped well chamber (1.85m E-W; 1.3m N-S; D c. 1m) and it is accessed by a series of steps at SW. It is further enclosed by a modern rectangular mortared stone-walled enclosure (5.7m E-W; 4.6m N-S) with a gateway in the NW corner. Centrally placed in its S wall is a round-headed alcove containing a statue. According to local information, the well was used as a cure for sore eyes and rags were tied to a hawthorn bush its E; the latter has since been removed.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 27 January 2020
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.