Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Kilbraghan (Crannagh By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilbraghan (Crannagh By.)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.59487, -7.45858
- SMR number
- KK022-044----
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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 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 435), in Kilbraghan, ‘St. Brachan’s holy well, called Tubbervrachawin, is in the second field to the north of the site of the churchyard [KK022-011002-]’. On the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map a stream is indicated flowing from a field boundary c. 130m NNE of the graveyard. The stream possibly rises from a spring at this point and may be where the holy well was located.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 27 May 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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.