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Ritual site - holy well

Tinnalintan, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ritual site - holy well, Tinnalintan, County Kilkenny, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Tinnalintan
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
St. Finans Well
Latest-edition OS map
St. Finans Well
Coordinates
52.81938, -7.33323
SMR number
KK005-012001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In a densely wooded copse c. 20m SE of Glashagal River. According to the OS Letters (1839) (O'Flanagan 1939, vol. 1, 26), at this well, dedicated to St Finan, 'a Patron was held some day in August till about thirty years ago'. It is described by Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 106) as, 'a fine spring, gushing forth from under an aged ash' and he relates that, 'Pilgrimages were made at the well, especially by persons afflicted with head-ache, till about 1835'. According to local tradition the well moved c. 70m to the SW when an overhanging ash tree was uprooted. This second spring is at present a muddy hollow covered in dense overgrowth, c. 0.8m below field level. The well itself, now dry, was the source of a stream which flowed N into the Glashagal River. The shallow channel created by this stream also serves as the W side of the fosse of an adjacent moated site (KK005-012002-).

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 26 April 2017

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.

Carrigan, Rev. W. 1905 (Reprint 1981) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. Kilkenny. Roberts Books and Wellbrook Press.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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