Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Callan North, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Callan North
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Augustines Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Augustines Well
- Coordinates
- 52.54522, -7.38766
- SMR number
- KK026-010018-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
On the flat flood plain of the Kings River which flows c. 35m S of the well. The Augustinian friary (KK026-010016-) of Callan is located c. 60m to the N. Indicated on the 6-inch OS map as 'St. Augustine's Well'. It is a clear spring well surrounded by a stone wall (dims. 3m x 4.63m), with an entrance on the S side. At the entrance the water flows over a limestone gutter-spout (KK026-010019-) which may have come from the friary. There is no evidence of veneration. The well water flows southward into the Kings River.
See attached photographs:
KK026-010018-_01 From S (Urban Archaeological Survey, October 1992)
KK026-010018-_01 From SW (Urban Archaeological Survey, October 1992)
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 21 October 2019
Nearby in the register
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Augustinian friarsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.