Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ballymore (killeenavarra By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymore (killeenavarra By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Holy Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.16494, -8.87732
- SMR number
- GA113-023001-
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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
In flat pastureland. Named 'Holy Well' but not indicated on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map. No visible surface trace of it survives and its existence was not remembered locally. It is possible that the name is an error and should have read 'Altar', as on the 1922 edition of the map. The latter feature proved to be the remains of a cross-shaft on a pedestal and base (see GA113-023----).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 16 November 2022
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.