Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Kilmacduagh, County Galway, Ireland
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-
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
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
- Ritual site - holy tree/bushunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.