Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Inane, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inane
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Cronans Well
- Coordinates
- 52.94481, -7.83339
- SMR number
- TN017-001001-
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
Situated in a low-lying area at the base of a steep hill which lies to the NW. A covered, circular well (Wth 1.7m; H 2.2m) of keyhole plan with the entrance (L 2m; Wth 0.76m) at SE. A wall (Wth 0.35m) encloses five steps which lead down to the entrance. The well is built of sandstone with crude cement mortar. Three iron bars support a crude stone 'lintel' consisting of stones set on edge. The well is c. 1m above external ground level and has an external cement cap smoothed over a corbelled roof.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.