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- TypeRitual site - holy well
What to look for
- Offerings left
- Cross or cross-slab
Picked out from the Archaeological Survey description below.
Can you visit?
- No source says it is open to the public.Most monuments in Ireland stand on private farmland.
- Ask the landowner before crossing fields, close gates, leave the stones as you find them.Visiting responsibly
History and description
On the townland boundary in a shallow valley c. 120m NNE of a church of the same name (GA009-004----). Known locally as Tobar na Seacht nlníon, it consists of a natural spring, revetted by stone, and covered by a flat circular stone.
Full archaeological record 114 words
On the townland boundary in a shallow valley c. 120m NNE of a church of the same name (GA009-004----). Known locally as Tobar na Seacht nlníon, it consists of a natural spring, revetted by stone, and covered by a flat circular stone. A number of coins are visible within it. The OS Letters state that 'There was formerly at this well a flag stone called Leac na seacht n-inghion... which was made the same use of as Leac Féichin [see GA026-009----; i.e. a cursing stone]...but some of the clergy caused it to be buried under ground “for special weighty reasons” ' (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 27). (Killanin 1954, 99-100; Tully Cross I.C.A. 1985, 7-8)
Archaeological Survey of Ireland, National Monuments Service (CC BY 4.0) · Updated 05 August 2010 · Based on the Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling. It describes the site as it was when surveyed.
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