Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Well
Dooros (leitrim By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dooros (leitrim By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Church Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church Well
- Coordinates
- 53.01303, -8.32315
- SMR number
- GA132-013002-
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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 hollow in pastureland, some 50m to the N of Dooros burial ground (GA132-013001-). Although named 'Church Well' on the 1838 edition and 1948 revision of the OS 6-inch map, suggesting some religious
significance, according to the OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 2, 516), the well was not regarded as a holy well. On inspection in December 1983 the area was flooded and no visible trace of any structure could be seen. A revisit in March 1992 confirmed that locally it was believed to be a secular well and not a holy one.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 10 January 2020
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1927 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Galway collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Typescript in 3 vols. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy tree/bushunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.