What is recorded here

Cross stood in Galway pastureland beside three holy wells, drawing pilgrims to pray at its stones until removal erased it from the land. It is no longer visible, but the wells and lost cross still mark a place where people went to ask, witness and belong.

In pastureland, to the SE of a stream. Shown on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map as being located to the SW of two holy wells (GA098-068002- and GA098-068003-); a third holy well (GA098-068001-) lay to its W. Described in the OS Letters (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 2, 80) as ‘a cross and a heap of stones near [the holy wells] at which the pilgrims pray’. Evidently removed by the time of the 1933 edition of the map when the words ‘Site of’ were appended. Apart from a moss-covered pile of stones, no visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 21 November 2022

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