What is recorded here

Twelve small stone cairns and four D-shaped shelters cluster beside a holy well in County Galway, likely marking penitential stations for repeated prayer. A person could have walked the stones, knelt in the shallow shelters, and drunk from the clear stream before leaving a marker behind. The cairns still stand like a forgotten prayer path, waiting for someone to remember the rhythm of that devotion.

To NW of a byroad in the vicinity of a holy well (GA063-016001-) and a stream. A group of some 12 small cairns of loose stone are visible to W and NW of the holy well along with four D-shaped shelters, also of stone. These may have been penitential stations associated with devotions at the well. (Robinson 1985, 43). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

A wayside cairn, likely medieval or later, associated with a holy well and possibly used as a boundary marker or pilgrimage feature; its significance lies in its contextual relationship with sacred and ritual landscape elements.

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