Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Rathbeagh, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathbeagh
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Catherines Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Catherines Well
- Coordinates
- 52.75371, -7.34551
- SMR number
- KK009-049----
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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
In wet marshy terrain, at the base of a steep slope (H c.2m) on the W bank of a stream which runs into the River Nore c. 130m to the SSE. According to local information there are a number of springs along the base of this slope. The medieval church (KK009-048001-) and graveyard (KK009-048003-) of Rathbeagh are located c. 140m to the NW. The OS Letters (1839) describe this as, 'a well between this Church [KK009-048001-] and the Nore called St. Catherine's well, at which a Patron was held till within the last ten years on the 2th day of June, and the 6th of December was kept a holy day in the Parish in honour of St. Catherine' (O'Flanagan ed. 1930, vol. 1, 88 (29-30)). While the area is very overgrown and generally marshy, the ground is particularly wet in the vicinity of where the well is indicated on the 1st and revised ed. of the OS 6-inch map.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 9 May 2018
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
- Tomb - chest tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.