Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Well
Derrygill, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derrygill
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Spa Well (Chalybeate)
- Coordinates
- 53.03606, -8.39503
- SMR number
- GA131-011----
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 hilly forest and bogland. Named 'Spa Well (Chalybeate)' on the 1933 edition of the OS 6-inch map. On inspection no trace of any man-made structure was visible. It may have been a natural spring or pool.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 3 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Maltingsunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Mill - cornunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.