Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Well
Dromorehill, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dromorehill
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.11614, -8.76640
- SMR number
- GA114-069003-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: 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
In pastureland c. 20m to the NE of the church (GA114-069001-). This natural spring well is delimited by a roughly rectangular drystone wall (L 2.2m). At its N end, where it is covered by a single lintel, it is 0.8m wide and it narrows to 0.45m at the S end where a series of three steps access the well. At the time of the site visit, a channel (L 20m) running E from the well lead to a dried-up watering hole. Water was being pumped from the well to a trough c. 30m to the ENE. The well may be associated with the church to the SW but no votive offerings were noted at it.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 14 June 2017
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.