Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Longford (longford By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Longford (longford By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Patricks Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Patricks Well (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.15763, -8.19016
- SMR number
- GA118-060002-
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 reclaimed pastureland. Named ‘St Patrick’s Well’ on the 1838 and 1946 editions of the 6-inch OS maps. According to the OS Letters, this holy well was said to be ‘fast losing its sanctity’ by 1838(O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 2, 49). On inspection in 1984, no visible surface trace of it survived. Its site was marked by a low subcircular mound (c. 8m E-W, 6m N-S, H 0.2m) of loose field-clearance stones. A bullaun stone (GA118-060001-) lies immediately to its E.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 April 2023
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
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.