Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Treananearla, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Treananearla
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Holy Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Holy Well
- Coordinates
- 53.15045, -8.28972
- SMR number
- GA117-091001-
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 level pastureland. Named ‘Holy Well’ in Gothic script on the 1838 and 1947 editions of the OS 6-inch map. On inspection, all that remained of this dried-up well was a small rectangular depression (0.3m E-W; 0.2m N-S; D 0.25m). Immediately to its W was an irregularly shaped bullaun stone (GA117-091002-). Both the holy well and the bullaun are located on a raised roughly oval-shaped stone-faced platform (9.5m N-S; 7.5m E-W; H 0.5m).
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 9 May 2023
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Hengeunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.