Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Cill éinne, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cill éinne
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Holy Well (now dry)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Holy Well (now dry)
- Coordinates
- 53.11440, -9.68933
- SMR number
- GA110-159002-
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
At Cill Charna c. 2.5m N of a possible church (GA110-159001-). Described by Barry (1886, 493) as 'A dripping well…called “Tobarchora” '; correctly Tobar Charna. All that is visible today is a small circular hole, blocked by rubble, in S part of a ruined rectangular drystone enclosure (L 8m, Wth 7m) which is built of limestone flags set on edge.
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).
Edited by: Olive Alcock
Date of revised upload: 3 February 2023
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.