What is recorded here
On the side of a trackway in the field NE of the bridge at Leenaun village. This well, correctly Tobar Muire, is now blocked up and totally obscured by growth. According to local tradition, it was frequented on 15th August, 'Pattern Fair' day, until 'travelling people washed their clothes in it and it seized up'. Now obliterated by new road (pers. comm. T. Robinson). I - West Galway'.
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA012-003
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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