Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Stonecarthy West, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Stonecarthy West
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Toberkieran
- Latest-edition OS map
- Toberkieran
- Coordinates
- 52.52419, -7.23767
- SMR number
- KK027-045----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
At the bottom of a W-facing slope, in the NE corner of a small walled enclosure, in very marshy ground. It is located c. 225m SW of the medieval church (KK027-046001-) in Stonecarthy East. The OS Letters (1839) mentions that the well is called, 'Tobar Ciarain (Toberkeeran) i.e., Keeran's Well, but it is held in no sanctified veneration at present' (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 283 (96)).
A natural spring well choked with weeds. The well is no longer venerated and has fallen into disuse and neglect.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 4 April 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.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.