Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ballyargadaun, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyargadaun
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St Erneens Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St Erneens Well
- Coordinates
- 53.14800, -8.48102
- SMR number
- GA116-010----
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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 N-facing slope in pastureland. This natural spring well is known as ‘St Erneen’s well’. It is enclosed by a circular drystone-built wall with a gap (Wth 0.9m), now blocked with wooden fencing, opening to the N. It is capped with a circular stone (diam. 1.32m), which has a central hole (diam. 0.36m). Rags are tied to a nearby ash tree to the NE and a hawthorn tree to the S. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 2, 9).
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 19 December 2022
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1927 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Galway collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Typescript in 3 vols. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Icehouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.