Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Templemartin (gowran By., Clara Ed), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Templemartin (gowran By., Clara Ed)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Martins Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Martins Well
- Coordinates
- 52.65412, -7.18683
- SMR number
- KK020-010----
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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
In reclaimed pasture. There are a number of streams in the vicinity including one c. 20m to the W which flows NNE-SSW. According to the OS Letters (1839) the well, dedicated to St Martin, 'is situated in a bog about two hundred yards to the north east of the church [KK020-009001-]. Stations are performed at it on St. Martin's Day, 11th of November' (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 247 (83)). The well is not visible above ground (viewed on satellite imagery 16 November 2020).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 16 November 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.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.