Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Lisbrine, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisbrine
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- ‘Tobercouran’
- Latest-edition OS map
- ‘Tobercouran’
- Coordinates
- 53.06255, -8.74064
- SMR number
- GA123-070----
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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 80m ESE of a burial ground (GA123-069----), on a SE-facing slope. This spring well, dedicated to St Couran, is delimited by a circular drystone-lined well shaft (1.12m N-S; 1.16m E-W; D 1.45-1.7m). Six steps (Wth 0.38m; D 0.26m) at WSW lead down to the water. From the top of the lowest step there is a drop of 0.5m to the base of the well. A kerb of small upright stones (H 0.16; L 0.35m; Wth 0.03m) extends around its perimeter. An uninscribed upright slab was visible few metres N of the well. Six broken and inscribed stone fragments were found in and around it, five of them fitted together to form a pillar-like slab (approx. L 0.78m; Wth 0.15m; T 0.07m) bearing the following dedication, beneath an IHS monogram, SAINT COURNA. Further lettering beneath this was difficult to decipher.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 April 2023
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.