What is recorded here

Holy Well in County Galway is a dried-up ritual site where a tiny rectangular depression and an irregular bullaun stone still sit on a raised oval platform. The name appeared in Gothic script on the 1838 and 1947 maps, marking a place people believed worthy of honour long before surveyors measured its shallow remains. Water may have flowed there in seasons when the land held more rain, drawing visitors to drink, pray or leave a coin beside the worn stone.

In level pastureland. Named ‘Holy Well’ in Gothic script on the 1838 and 1947 editions of the OS 6-inch map. On inspection, all that remained of this dried-up well was a small rectangular depression (0.3m E-W; 0.2m N-S; D 0.25m). Immediately to its W was an irregularly shaped bullaun stone (GA117-091002-). Both the holy well and the bullaun are located on a raised roughly oval-shaped stone-faced platform (9.5m N-S; 7.5m E-W; H 0.5m). Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 9 May 2023

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