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Ritual site - holy well

Connahy, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ritual site - holy well, Connahy, 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
Connahy
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.76116, -7.29071
SMR number
KK010-102----

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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

According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 194), there is, 'a well, reputed holy, a little to the north of Conahy chapel. People used to pilgrim around it formerly'. This reference may refer to a well which is indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map, c. 190m NW of Connahy R. C. chapel, with a stream running SE and then S past the former church (KK010-058001-) and graveyard (KK010-058002-), which lies c. 160m S of the well. It is not indicated on the 1947 OS 6-inch revision.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 14 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.

Nearby in the register

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

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