Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure
Kilferagh, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilferagh
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.62139, -7.19745
- SMR number
- KK020-050005-
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
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)
- 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Associated with St Fiachra’s holy well (KK020-050004-) and described as St Fiachra’s bed (An t-Athair Micheál 1946-7, 63). A field report describes it as, ‘about 50 yards [c. 47m] south of the well is a clifted over hanging rock the outer side is built up with loose stones it is called St Feechars Bed’ (OPW correspondence, no date).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 13 October 2021
References
Micheál, A. 1946-7 St. Fiacre's Well. Old Kilkenny Review 1, 63-7.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Tomb - effigialunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.