Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Well
Maddockstown, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Maddockstown
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Maddockstown Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Maddockstown Well
- Coordinates
- 52.63203, -7.19647
- SMR number
- KK020-062----
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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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map as 'Maddockstown Well' in Gothic script which suggests that it was considered an antiquity when the map was being drawn up. It would appear to have been a domestic well, described by Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 366) as, 'a good well'. He mentions that there is no holy well in Maddockstown.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 1 March 2021
References
Carrigan, Rev. W. 1905 (Reprint 1981) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. Kilkenny. Roberts Books and Wellbrook Press.
Nearby in the register
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.