Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ballycannon, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballycannon
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Trinity Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Trinity Well
- Coordinates
- 52.68606, -7.37573
- SMR number
- KK013-085----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the floor of the Arigna river valley, with land rising to the E, in reclaimed grassland. According to the OS Letters (1839), the holy well was 'stopped up six years ago' i.e. c. 1833 (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 208 (69)). However this appears to be contradicted by O'Kelly (1969 (1985 reprint), 4), who notes, 'Holy Trinity well at which a pattern is still held on the second Sunday in July is 400 yards south-east of the church. There is a Mass bush, a reminder of fugitive open-air worship in Penal days, beside the well'. There are several springs in the area which flow into a small stream but the well itself was removed during land reclamation works in the 1970s.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 30 March 2020
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.
O'Kelly, O. 1969 (Reissue 1985) The place-names of County Kilkenny. Kilkenny.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.