Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Cuilmore (loughrea By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cuilmore (loughrea By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St Peters Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St Peters Well
- Coordinates
- 53.11233, -8.73826
- SMR number
- GA114-068----
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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 the centre of Peterswell village. This spring well, dedicated to St Peter, is enclosed within a well-built mortared wellhouse constructed of mortared rubble limestone walls and a pitched roof of flagstones. The square-headed doorway is to the SE and is secured by a short iron gate. A cut-stone lintel over it bears the inscription ‘Dermot Donelan of Sylane 1840’. Inside modern guard rails surround the well. Below the roof, on opposing sides, two pairs of putlog-holes are visible. The well is fed by a stream that appears to stop c. 5m to the SW of the wellhouse, though it may continue underground.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
References
Killanin, M.M. and Duignan, M.V. 1967 (2nd ed.) The Shell guide to Ireland. London. The Ebury Press.
Nearby in the register
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- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.