Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Cartron (leitrim By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cartron (leitrim By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobernagrann
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobernagrann
- Coordinates
- 53.15125, -8.41399
- SMR number
- GA116-023----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the E bank of a dredged stream in rolling pastureland, c. 175m SE of a church (GA116-021----). This natural spring well was regarded locally as a holy well but it has not been used as such for many years. On inspection, apart from a large limestone slab, which once covered it, no visible trace of the well survived. The adjacent stream was overgrown.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 9 January 2023
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.