Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Lackabaun (leitrim By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lackabaun (leitrim By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberbreeda
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberbreeda
- Coordinates
- 53.13432, -8.39939
- SMR number
- GA116-074002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
In a hollow close to a stream. This holy well consists of a spring well which is defined by a small flat pile of stones (diam. 1.5m), in the center of which there is a modern pipe. According to local information, people used to tie ribbons to a hawthorn tree beside it. The well was used up to the early 1920s. A church (GA116-076----) lies c. 375m to the WSW.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 13 January 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.