Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Stowlin, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Stowlin
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St Patricks Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St Patricks Well
- Coordinates
- 53.18013, -8.22254
- SMR number
- GA108-223----
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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Some 175m WNW of Kilquain church (GA108-224----) and graveyard (GA108-224001-), in level grassland. Named ‘St Patrick’s well’ on the 1838 and 1945 editions of the OS 6-inch OS maps. The well occupies the NE sector of a low rectangular platform (13.5m E-W; 12.9m N-S; H 0.4m), which is defined by a scarp and surrounded by a shallow external fosse (Wth 1.4m). The well itself is delimited by a much-collapsed drystone-built circular wall (diam. 1.8m; H 0.15m; Wth 0.7m). On inspection, it was dry and the remains of a tree trunk lay across it. A hawthorn tree was growing to its E.
Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 9 May 2023
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.