Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Cill Mhuirbhigh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cill Mhuirbhigh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Bullaunmalore
- Coordinates
- 53.13559, -9.76716
- SMR number
- GA110-035----
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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
On a bare terrace of limestone pavement, 0.6km NW of the village of Cill Mhuirbhigh, Inis Mór. Known locally as Bullán Mhaolodhair (Robinson 1980), it consists of a small natural cavity in the limestone over which is an oval drystone cairn (2.3m by 1.4m, H 0.7m). Some modern offerings are visible. (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 383; Westropp 1895, 260)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.