Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ennisnag, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ennisnag
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobermogue
- Latest-edition OS map
- Pump on Site of Tobermogue
- Coordinates
- 52.54621, -7.23011
- SMR number
- KK027-019----
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 E side of the Kilkenny to Stonyford road. Indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch as, ‘Tobermogue’ and on the subsequent 1948 revision as, ‘Pump on Site of Tobermogue’. According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 374), ‘Tobermogue, or St. Mogue’s holy well, may be seen on the roadside, about 300 yds. north of the churchyard [KK027-020002-]. A pattern was held at the well till the beginning of the 19th century’. The well is covered over with a concrete cap, with a metal cover providing access to the pump. A stone plaque has been erected on a plinth to the rear.
See attached image:
KK027-019----_01 Google Earth imagery, August 2018
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 27 March 2023
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
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.