Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Cotterellsbooly, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cotterellsbooly
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Johns Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Johns Well
- Coordinates
- 52.53979, -7.19873
- SMR number
- KK028-017----
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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
Within a band of woodland, the River Nore flows N-S c. 160m to the E. Indicated as ‘St. John’s Well’ on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and the 1948-9 revision. It appears to be a spring well, with a stream running S from it for c. 140m before turning SE to flow into the River Nore. According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 4, 12) the holy well is, ‘dedicated to St. John, from which the subdivision takes its name and which itself is an evidence of the connection of the Knights of St. John with the townland’. It is described by O’Kelly (1969, 164) as, St. John’s Well, John of Jerusalem, Order of the Knights Hospitallers’.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
References
O'Kelly, O. 1969 (Reissue 1985) The place-names of County Kilkenny. Kilkenny. 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
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.