Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Well
Baunta Commons, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baunta Commons
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobernasheagh
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobernasheagh
- Coordinates
- 52.52748, -7.40299
- SMR number
- KK026-032----
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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 S bank of the Kilbride River, at the base of the scarp which drops to flood-plain of the river, in rough pasture. The river runs roughly E-W c. 25m to the N. Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 321) describes this as, 'a fine well, not accounted holy, and known as Tobarnaskeha or Well of the White-thorn tree'. According to local information the well is now gone.
References
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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.