Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Cill éinne, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cill éinne
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Eanys Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Eanys Well
- Coordinates
- 53.10335, -9.66402
- SMR number
- GA119-006001-
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Some 20m N of a round tower (GA119-006005-) at the foot of a low limestone outcrop. Named 'Dabhach Éinné, Dolium Endei' in OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 347), it is known locally as Tobar Éinne. It consists of a natural spring, delimited by drystone walls (E-W 0.95m) and roofed with lintels, which opens to E. A roughly rectangular drystone altar or leacht (L 1.6m, Wth 1.1m, H 0.9m), surmounted by a modern cross slab, stands 1m to N (see GA119-006002-). Another holy well (GA119-006003-) lies c. 40m to NE. (Westropp 1895, 263)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
The following image has been uploaded: GA119-006001-_01.jpg Holy well to left; altar (GA119-006002-) to right
Updated by: Olive Alcock
Date of revised upload: 4 November 2021
This monument was taken into Ownership under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 - National Monument 43.
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.
Westropp, T.J. 1895 Proceedings: Aran Islands. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 25, 250-74.
Gosling, P. (compiler) 1993 Archaeological inventory of County Galway, vol. 1: West Galway. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Nearby in the register
- Altarunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Round towerunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Franciscan friarsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.