Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Baunballinlough, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baunballinlough
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.78809, -7.58765
- SMR number
- KK008-013----
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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
At the edge of a valley floor, in rolling pasture. This is indicated on a Grand Jury Map as a holy well. When inspected in 1987 the well was in use as cattle pump and was capped with concrete.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 27 September 2017
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Headstoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.