Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Derrycrag, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derrycrag
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Holy Well
- Coordinates
- 53.04606, -8.39197
- SMR number
- GA131-010----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In a small clearing in hilly woodland. This well-preserved circular drystone-built holy well (diam. 1m), dedicated to Our Lady, was dry on the day of the site inspection. It is accessed by four stone steps at SE. Some 2m to its NE a low drystone-built cairn is surmounted by a small wooden cabinet containing a statue and flowers. Old rags and rosary beads hang on a nearby tree.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 3 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Maltingsunder 1 mi
- Mill - cornunder 1 mi
- Townunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.