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Ritual site - holy well

Pollagh (Gowran By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ritual site - holy well, Pollagh, County Kilkenny, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Pollagh (Gowran By.)
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Toberboy
Latest-edition OS map
Toberboy (Site of)
Coordinates
52.59582, -6.97860
SMR number
KK025-026----

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In the SW angle of a field of rough pasture. Templeboy church (KK025-027001-) was located immediately S, in the N part of the adjacent field (as suggested on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map or c. 160m to the ESE (as indicated on the 1900 revision and 25-inch map). Indicated as 'Toberboy' on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and a 'Toberboy (Site of)' on the 1900 revision.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 1 March 2022

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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