Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ballyhugh, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyhugh
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobermacduagh or Cloghannanack Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobermacduagh or Cloghannanack Well
- Coordinates
- 53.06499, -8.82950
- SMR number
- GA122-003----
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
In pastureland, at the base of a slope on the E side of a marshy hollow. This well-preserved spring well is enclosed by a small wedge-shaped chamber (1.4m N-S) that opens to the NNE (Wth 1.3m; H 1.6m) and narrows towards the rear (Wth 0.5m; H 1.1m). It is roofed with three broad thin limestone lintels (max. L 1.36m; Wth 0.5m; T 0.15m) and five stone steps lead down to the water. The side-walls are constructed of heavily mortared roughly coursed limestone blocks and the E side is bulging inwards. No votive offerings were noted but a whitethorn bush is growing close by to the S.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 19 December 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.