Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Church Hill, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Church Hill
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Well
- Coordinates
- 52.60081, -7.30565
- SMR number
- KK023-094----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
According to Hogan (1880-83, 41-4), ‘The well of the cross, or as it is more popularly called the “Patron Well,” springs from under a small stone-roofed apse on the north side of the road, between the village [Cuffesgrange] and the church [KK023-036001-]; it is now a neglected pool filled with sludge, but within the memory of many it was a neatly enclosed spring of pure fresh water. The two “patrons” were still continued to be observed at Grange down to a few years since. I have been informed that in the early part of the present century “May Sunday” was a gala day in that little village’. Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 391) also mentions the ‘holy well of Grange’ and locates it to being, ‘on the roadside, between Grange village and the chapel’.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 6 September 2021
References
Hogan, J. 1880-83 Notes on ancient churches and castles of Ballybur Inchihologan. Transactions of the Ossory Archaeological Society 2, 33-49.
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
- Cross - Churchyard crossunder 1 mi
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Architectural featureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.