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Ritual site - holy well

Freneystown, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ritual site - holy well, Freneystown, 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
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-

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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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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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.

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