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Ritual site - holy well

Cappagh (Toem Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ritual site - holy well, Cappagh (Toem Par.), County Tipperary South, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Cappagh (Toem Par.)
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Ladys Well
Latest-edition OS map
Ladys Well
Coordinates
52.58046, -8.15934
SMR number
TS051-004----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On a SSW-facing slope of rising ground in undulating countrside with nearby castle (TS051-003----) c. 100m to N. A natural spring well much overgrown with evidence of internal stone facing, with no roof over the well. There are no apparent religious associations attached to the well. It is possibly a natural spring well of secular association. Seymour (1917, 40) describes the well as a 'built-over well called "Lady Well", local tradition explaining this name by a story that at one time there were three ladies living in Cappagh House, who reserved the water for their own use, and would not allow the neighbours to draw any of it'.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

References

Seymour, Rev. St. J. 1917 Notes on a Tipperary parish. Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 23, 36-42.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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