What is recorded here
Doire Fhada Thiar holds a small spring beneath hawthorn bushes on the southwest slope above Loch Shéamaisín Uí Niaidh. Beside it lies a flat stone marked with tiny depressions that local memory shapes into footprints of a child, a lamb and other animals. The water may have served nearby people for cleansing, drinking or quiet prayer, while the marked stone gave that ordinary act a story worth returning to.
On SW slope of a valley running NW from Loch Shéamaisín Uí Niaidh. It consists of a small natural spring under some hawthorn bushes. Beside it is a flat stone with many small depressions, regarded as the footprints of a child, a lamb and other animals (info. T. Robinson). Not visited.
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
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