Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ceathrú An Lisín, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ceathrú An Lisín
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobernakinneriga
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobernakinneriga
- Coordinates
- 53.08357, -9.59067
- SMR number
- GA119-082----
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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 50m SW of Teampall na Seacht Mac Rí (GA119-081001-). Noted by O'Flaherty in 1684 (Hardiman 1846, 86), it is known locally as Tobar Chinndeirge and dedicated to the saint of that name (Robinson 1980). It consists of a natural spring delimited by a low subcircular drystone wall (D 2.7m). (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 214)
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).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.