Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Cappagh (toem Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland
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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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 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
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrow1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.