Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Kilballykeefe, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilballykeefe
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- KK022-042----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The OS Letters (1839) mention, ‘a well called Nicholas’s Well lies a little to the west of it [‘it’ being the church (KK022-015001-) and graveyard (KK022-015002-) at Kilballykeefe]’ (O’Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 237 (81)). The church is also described by Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 436) who mentions that the patron of the church was, ‘St. Nicholas, whose holy well, called Thubberniclaush, or St. Nicholas’s well, is close by’. The precise location of this holy well is unknown.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 27 May 2021
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.
Carrigan, Rev. W. 1905 (Reprint 1981) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. Kilkenny. Roberts Books and Wellbrook Press.