Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Caherbroder, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherbroder
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.03690, -8.83395
- SMR number
- GA128-032002-
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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 14m to the SSE of a children's burial ground (GA128-032001-). Known locally as St Patrick's Well; on inspection in May 1986 the holy well consisted of a D-shaped spring well (2.2m N-S) enclosed by natural rock outcrop. A wall has subsequently been erected around it (see https://field-monuments.galwaycommunityheritage.org/content/archaeology/field-monuments/childrens-graveyard). The annual pilgrimage was held on August 15th. A bullaun stone (GA128-031----), also associated with St Patrick, lies c. 190m to the WNW.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 29 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.