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Well

Spital-Land (Relickmurray & Athassel Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Well, Spital-Land (Relickmurray & Athassel 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
Spital-Land (Relickmurray & Athassel Par.)
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
52.49711, -7.97435
SMR number
TS060-132----

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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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (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

Immediately E of the townland boundary (c. 1m to E) between Spital-land and Hoops-lot. This well has been backfilled. In the mid-19th century a Roman oculist's stamp was found 'in a dyke on the rising ground above the green of the village of Golden Bridge, and in a plot of land four acres in extent, known by the name of the Spittle Fields or Lands' (Daffy 2002, 8). In Roman Britain these stamps are frequently found at the sites of curative cults at wells and springs and at related shrines found near boundaries. It is possible that the well in Spital-land was the focal point of a Hiberno-Roman curative site.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 15 July 2014

References

Daffy, S. 2002 A site for sore eyes: a Hiberno-Roman curative cult at Golden, Co. Tipperary. Archaeology Ireland 16, No. 2, 8-9.

Nearby in the register

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

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