Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Freneystown, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Freneystown
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Scoheens Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Scoheens Well
- Coordinates
- 52.68234, -7.11774
- SMR number
- KK015-030006-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
A holy well known as St. Scoheen's Well (KK015-030006-)is located approx. 60m W of an early medieval church (KK015-030001-) and graveyard (KK015-030002-). The natural spring well has been incorporated into the S section of the 19th-century graveyard wall of a late medieval church (KK015-030004-) and graveyard (KK015-030005-). There are no votive offerings at the bottom of the well and there is no present tradition of a local pattern or any cures asscoiated with this well.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 7 March 2016
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.