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Ritual site - holy well

Kilmacduagh, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ritual site - holy well, Kilmacduagh, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Kilmacduagh
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Tobermacduagh
Latest-edition OS map
Tobermacduagh
Coordinates
53.04672, -8.88551
SMR number
GA128-034010-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

Part of the monastic complex of Kilmacduagh, this holy well is at the roadside, c. 200m to the SE of the round tower (GA128-034008-). Dedicated to St Colman Mac Duagh (Fahey 1893, 112), it consists of an overgrown dried-up spring well enclosed by a semicircular drystone wall (2.9m N-S; 2.1m E-W). A holy tree (GA128-034016-) stood c. 50m to E.

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Date of upload: 24 October 2016

This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 3/2009).

References

Fahey, J.A. 1893 (Reprint 1986) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Kilmacduagh. Galway. Kenny Gallery.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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