Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Kilmog Or Racecourse, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmog Or Racecourse
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- KK023-009005-
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The National Monuments Service's description
Under the heading 'The Racecourse or Kilmog, Cill Mo Aodhóg, Church of Mogue', O'Kelly (1969, 183) refers to, 'a tradition of an ancient church and the Friar's Well is in Tom Kearney's field'. Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 392-3) locates the church of Kilmog (KK023-009003-) to the gravel pit which is indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and the 1947 revision immediately S of a bullaun stone (KK023-009001-) and former holy tree (KK023-009002-) and running along the W side of the Kilkenny - Kells road. The name of the well referred to by O'Kelly suggests that it may have been a holy well. The precise location of Friar's Well is unknown.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 1 June 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.
O'Kelly, O. 1969 (Reissue 1985) The place-names of County Kilkenny. Kilkenny.