Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Derry (Longford By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derry (Longford By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Holy Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Holy Well
- Coordinates
- 53.18941, -8.13937
- SMR number
- GA108-054----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In grassland adjacent to the townland boundary, on the W bank of a stream. Named ‘Holy Well’ on the 1838 and 1945 revision of the OS 6-inch maps. On inspection no visible surface trace of the well survived, apart from a scatter of loose stones, and locals did not remember a holy well in the area.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 January 2023
Nearby in the register
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.