Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Drumatober, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumatober
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Holy Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Holy Well
- Coordinates
- 53.19197, -8.37275
- SMR number
- GA107-058002-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Immediately S of a children’s burial ground (GA107-058001-). This natural spring well is known locally as ‘Our Lady’s Well’ and is visited each May. It is defined by an oval drystone well chamber (1.1m E-W; 0.9m N-S; D 0.8m) around which lies a scatter of loose stones (Wth 0.9m), most likely field-clearance material. A small alcove built into the S sector of the well contained religious icons and money, and more were also scattered around the W sector. The well was dry on inspection and, according to local information, the water source had moved near the large tree just W of the well. A number of natural depressions in the nearby rock outcrop are known locally as ‘St Brendan’s knees’.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 28 March 2023
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.