Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Well
Spital-Land (relickmurray & Athassel Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland
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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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
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
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
- Metalworking siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.