Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Inis Oírr, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inis Oírr
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.06637, -9.52738
- SMR number
- GA120-004----
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
At N end of the island, just N of the former coastguard station, on the boundary between the subdivisions of Baile an Lurgáin and Baile Thios. It consists of an unenclosed natural spring at the foot of a low but vertical limestone scarp. A simple Latin cross, the date 1818, and the word 'Healy' are lightly incised on the rockface above it. Now used as watering spot for cattle.
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
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Leachtunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.