Archaeology and monuments in County Galway
The Discover Alone map has 9,465 archaeology and monuments in County Galway, Ireland. Below are the 60 with the most written about them, pictures first. Every one has its own page with directions and places nearby.
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Yellow WellHoly wellYellow Well is an unenclosed natural spring in low Galway grassland, traditionally named Tobar Buidhe because visiting…
Wooden CrossCross — Market crossWooden Cross marked a busy market in North Galway, though no stone or wood remains visible today. The name survived on…
Woodbed RathFairy fort / earthen ringfortWoodbed Rath is a broken thirty-eight metre circle on a Galway ridge, watching the Flaskagh River through grass that…
Windmill StumpWindmillOne chamber still stands on the Galway ridge, its mouth open to the west and its floor scattered with broken stone. The…
Windmill (in Ruins)WindmillThree storeys of circular stone still stand on a Galway rise, their opposing east and west doorways waiting for carts…
Windhill fortFairy fort / ringfortOne hundred years young, the boy forgot the path home and fell beside the fort. He did not run or call for help. He…
Well of the Seven DaughtersHoly wellKillanin recorded the well in 1947, but water has likely wet that granite since before counting began. Seven daughters…
Well of the Seven DaughtersHoly wellSeven daughers gave up their lives to stop a great famine. They threw themselves into the rock and became the water…
Wedge tomb in Doorus DemesneWedge tombKinvarra Bay: Three uprights, one roofstone, a wedge of shadow pointing inland. The chamber narrows from 1.5m to 1.2m…
Vermount FortEnclosureVermount Fort stands on a prominent Galway hillock as a thirty-metre oval platform, now split by a field wall and…
UainmoreMan-made underground passageUainmore is a closed stone passage beneath a Galway ringfort, remembered only because a landowner pointed to its buried…
Trinity WellHoly wellTrinity Well hides in Galway scrubland a kilometre south-west of Burnthouse, where a shallow stony depression still…
TowerSignal towerGolam Head holds one of Ireland’s best-preserved early nineteenth-century signal towers, still standing to its full…
Tomb StoneMegalithic structureThe Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic…
ToberustaHoly wellToberusta is a flooded holy well in County Galway, marked on maps since 1838 but unused for decades. Its drystone wall…
Toberursaun AltarAltarToberursaun Altar holds an 18th-century inscribed slab on a cairn beside the Kilcolgan River, preserved only as a…
Tobersalrock Holy WellHoly wellTobar Salroc stood at the northwest edge of Salrock graveyard, a holy well so established it appeared on the first…
ToberrosHoly wellToberros was a holy well beside a Galway stream where locals dipped delicate children, but drainage works deepened the…
ToberroeHoly wellToberroe is a hidden drystone chamber at the edge of Galway marshland, built deep enough to hold a metre of water and…
ToberoranHoly wellToberoran is a buried holy well in Galway marshland, dedicated to St Oran and marked only by coloured stones scattered…
ToberoranHoly wellToberoran is a ruined holy well in Galway marshland where coloured stones still mark the home of St Oran. The spring…
TobernaveanHoly wellTobernavean is a holy well in County Galway, Ireland. People may have drunk from it, washed wounds in it, or set small…
Tobernavannia (Site of)Holy wellTobernavannia was a holy well in Oughterard, County Galway, but even its memory has faded. It sat between Main Street…
TobernasorneyHoly wellTobernasorney is a holy well in County Galway dedicated to St. Sornia, where people sought healing on Garland Sunday. A…
Tobernashaght-ninneenHoly wellTobernashaght-ninneen is a hidden holy well on the southwest side of Gleann an Mháma, where a wet hollow at the foot of…
TobernaseachtinneanHoly wellTobernaseachtinnean is a holy well beside a shingle beach on Cleggan Head, where seven young women are said to have…
TobernanarmHoly wellTobernanarm is a holy well hidden in reclaimed Galway marshland, feeding the Bellanabradaun stream while modern housing…
TobernambraherHoly wellTobernambraher is a lost holy well in County Galway, Ireland. People called it the friar's well or Tobar Patrick…
TobernalourHoly wellTobernalour is a holy well in County Galway where a broad circular pond cuts through marshy ground and forces a swift…
TobernakinnerigaHoly wellTobernakinneriga is a holy well in County Galway, Ireland, dedicated to the saint Chinndeirge. It sits fifty metres…
Tobernahaulue Holy WellHoly wellTobernahaulue Holy Well is a spring enclosed by a crumbling drystone wall on the NW-facing slope of Knocklawrence Hill…
TobernagrannHoly wellTobernagrann is a lost holy well beside a dredged Galway stream, reduced now to a buried limestone slab and overgrown…
TobernagleedahHoly wellTobernagleedah is a holy well in County Galway, Ireland. It sits close to a lake shore and near early ecclesiastical…TobermurryHoly wellTobermurry, or Tobar Muire, stood beside a Galway trackway as a holy well where people gathered each 15th August. Local…
TobermurryHoly wellTobermurry is a lost holy well hidden beneath a dormant Galway stream, its memory preserved only in a hawthorn tree and…
TobermacduaghHoly wellTobermacduagh is a Galway holy well where local tradition places the birth of St Colman and the later burial of his…
‘Tobermacduagh’Holy wellTobermacduagh is a holy well in County Galway where a natural spring still flows through a drystone wall, feeding a…
Tobermacduagh or Cloghannanack WellHoly wellTobermacduagh is a wedge-shaped holy well in County Galway, built with five stone steps and three broad limestone…
TobermacduaghHoly wellTobermacduagh is a holy well in County Galway where local tradition places the birth of St Colman and the burial of his…
TobermacduaghHoly wellTobermacduagh is a holy well in County Galway where local tradition places the birth of St Colman and the burial of his…
TobermacduaghHoly wellTobermacduagh is a holy well in County Galway, Ireland, recorded on maps from 1838 and 1920. It sits on level ground…
TobermacduaghHoly wellTobermacduagh is a dried holy well beside a Galway road, belonging to the old Kilmacduagh monastery and dedicated to St…
TobermacduaghHoly wellTobermacduagh hides in a sheltered Galway hollow, marked on maps since 1838 and still receiving artificial flowers and…
TobermacduaghHoly wellTobermacduagh, correctly Tobar Mac Duach, is a deep natural spring in County Galway, Ireland, reached by twenty-four…
TobermacduaghHoly wellTobermacduagh is a holy well in County Galway, Ireland. The clear water flows from a concrete pipe surrounded by loose…
TobermacduaghHoly wellTobermacduagh is a holy well in County Galway, Ireland. It occupies the south edge of a small earthen mound beside a…
TobermacduaghHoly wellTobermacduagh is a hidden holy well in County Galway, Ireland. A natural spring still flows inside a small rectangular…
ToberlynchyHoly wellToberlynchy is a shallow, unenclosed pond about four metres across on the east side of a byroad in flat Galway…
ToberlaanHoly wellToberlaan is a holy well in County Galway, Ireland. It sits in poorly drained grassland 140m NE of a church. The well…
ToberkieranHoly wellToberkieran is a holy well in County Galway where clear water still rises into a stone basin beneath modern railings.…
Toberkeeraun Holy WellHoly wellToberkeeraun Holy Well sits in level Galway pasture, a natural spring held inside a circular drystone wall wide enough…
TobergrellaunHoly wellTobergrellaun is a dried-up holy well dedicated to St. Grellan, hidden in a ridge of County Galway grassland. Its small…
ToberflannanHoly wellToberflannan is a holy well in County Galway, Ireland. The southwest chamber still stands roofless beside the…
Toberfeheen (Site of)Holy wellToberfeheen was a holy well in hilly Galway countryside where two small streams met, but the living water vanished…
Toberfeheen Holy WellHoly wellToberfeheen is a dry circular depression beside a living spring at the foot of a Galway scarp, preserving the memory of…
ToberfeheenHoly wellToberfeheen is a collapsed holy well at the Mám Tuirc saddle, feeding the stream that carries life east into Gleann…
ToberfeheenHoly wellToberfeheen is a small holy well on the southwest seashore of Omey Island, where an irregular rock hole sits inside a…
ToberfeheenHoly wellToberfeheen is a holy well in County Galway where a natural spring flows beside a low drystone platform topped with…
ToberendaHoly wellToberenda, a holy well in County Galway, vanished without a stone or scar when quarrying devoured the land. It stood on…
ToberendaHoly wellToberenda, correctly Tobar Éinne, is a holy well in County Galway where clear water still forces through a rock fissure…