What is recorded here
Close to the head of a minute inlet c. 0.5km W of Carna village. Known locally as Tobar na Seacht nIníon (pers. comm. T. Robinson), it consists of a natural smooth hole in the shape of an inverted pyramid (L/Wth c. 0.4m), on the crest of a rock scarp. A cleft in the rock forms a flight of little steps up to the well, which is now blocked by vegetation. Some round pebbles and pennies are visible. A small subrectangular drystone leacht (L 2.2m, Wth 1.3m, H 0.6m) lies 20m to SE. I - West Galway'.
Close to the head of a minute inlet c. 0.5km W of Carna village. Known locally as Tobar na Seacht nIníon (pers. comm. T. Robinson), it consists of a natural smooth hole in the shape of an inverted pyramid (L/Wth c. 0.4m), on the crest of a rock scarp. A cleft in the rock forms a flight of little steps up to the well, which is now blocked by vegetation. Some round pebbles and pennies are visible. A small…
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA076-010
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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Iorras BeagMountain / peak · 6.8 miPictures: Superbass, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Mac McCarron, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Hugh Chevallier, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Mac McCarron, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Maigheach-gheal, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Malcolm Neal, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Jonathan Wilkins, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Graham Horn, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Patrice78500, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
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