What is recorded here
On hillside on N side of Glencraff. It consists of a natural spring in an irregular rock cleft under the lower edge of a slanting flagstone. Though there are no signs of offerings, the well is associated locally with a St Craff. There is a hawthorn 10m to NW and a remarkable water-worn flagstone 11m to S (info. T. Robinson). Not visited. I - West Galway'.
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA011-003
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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