Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ovenstown, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ovenstown
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberakin
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberakin
- Coordinates
- 52.55320, -7.31138
- SMR number
- KK027-001002-
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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
Indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and on the 1948 revision as 'Toberakin'. According to the OS Letters (1839), this holy well is, 'called Tobar a Chinn, i.e., the Well of the Head, but why so called is not known. It is not now frequented for any devotional purpose'. This information is also provided by Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 329).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 8 May 2023
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1930 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Kilkenny collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Bray.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Tomb - chest tombunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.