Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ballyda, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyda
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Ladys Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ladys Well
- Coordinates
- 52.56622, -7.24781
- SMR number
- KK023-075----
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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
According to the OS Letters (1839), ‘There is a holy well called Lady’s Well in the Townland of Ballyda, much venerated still and frequented on the 15th of August by great numbers of devotees’ (O’Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 274 (92)). O’Kelly (1969, 180) also mentions this well, stating that it is, ‘still frequented on the 15th of August for devotional purposes’.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 24 August 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Furnaceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.