St. Eanys Well, holy well in County Galway

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Some 20m N of a round tower (GA119-006005-) at the foot of a low limestone outcrop. Named 'Dabhach Éinné, Dolium Endei' in OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 347), it is known locally as Tobar Éinne. It consists of a natural spring, delimited by drystone walls (E-W 0.95m) and roofed with lintels, which opens to E. A roughly rectangular drystone altar or leacht (L 1.6m, Wth 1.1m, H 0.9m), surmounted by a modern cross slab, stands 1m to N (see GA119-006002-). Another holy well (GA119-006003-) lies c. 40m to NE. (Westropp 1895, 263) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. The following image has been uploaded: GA119-006001-_01.jpg Holy well to left; altar (GA119-006002-) to right Updated by: Olive Alcock Date of revised upload: 4 November 2021 This monument was taken into Ownership under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 - National Monument 43.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA119-006001

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