Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Castlemarket, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlemarket
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Ladys Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ladys Well
- Coordinates
- 52.85965, -7.32371
- SMR number
- KK001-003----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
According to the OS Letters of 1839 this well was 'called Lady's Well, at which a Patron was held on the 15th of August till about twenty years ago, as also on the eigth of September. The well lies about a quarter of a mile north east of the Church [KK001-005001-] and is still resorted to for the cure of sore eyes, etc.' (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 82). There are no archaeological features visible.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 4 August 2015
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1930 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Kilkenny collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.