Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Maudlin (fassadinin By., Kilmacar Ed), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Maudlin (fassadinin By., Kilmacar Ed)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- KK010-095----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The OS Letters (1839) recorded that, 'There is a Patron held still on the 29th June at Lady's Well, about half a mile east of the church [of Kilmacar KK010-038001-] but this well is no longer to be seen' (O'Flanagan ed. 1930, vol. 1, 29 (10)). Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 201) describes it as, 'formerly a holy well call Thubber-Murrha, i.e. the Blessed Virgin's well, east of the church, on the right bank of the Glosha stream. It occupied the centre of a garden beside the road leading to Maudlin, on the left. About 1800, or a little later, the well was profaned and ran dry, and became, soon after, obliterated altogether. A great pattern was held here, on the 29th of June, till 1838, when the priests of the parish found it their duty to suppress it. Opposite the site of Thubber Murrha well, there is, on the other side of the public road, a well called Lady well, but it is not holy, and was only opened when the holy well went dry'. The precise location of this holy well is unknown.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 9 January 2019
References
Carrigan, Rev. W. 1905 (Reprint 1981) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. Kilkenny. Roberts Books and Wellbrook Press.
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.