Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ballygarry (carra By., Ballyovey. Par.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballygarry (carra By., Ballyovey. Par.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobercolumbkille
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobercolumbkille
- Coordinates
- 53.68258, -9.29310
- SMR number
- MA109-013----
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
In dense scrub, 100m from shore of Lough Carra to W. Circular dry-stone wall (diam. 3.3m N-S; H 0.9m; Wth 0.5m), with entrance on S, enclose heavily overgrown well site. Dedicated to St. Columbkille. Stations were performed here on Mondays and Thursdays (O'Donovan 1838, 32).
The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 644.
Date of upload: 21 January 2015
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.