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
- Tobercanonagh
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobercanonagh
- Coordinates
- 53.08082, -9.57614
- SMR number
- GA119-087003-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Some 30m NNW of Cill Cheannanach (GA119-087001-). Known locally as Tobar Cheannanach, it consists of a spring well which emerges from E side of a large earthfast boulder where it is defined by a low drystone wall. (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 408)
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.