Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Ballynilard, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynilard
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Holy Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Holy Well
- Coordinates
- 52.46706, -8.19827
- SMR number
- TS066-065----
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
In grassland on just off top of E-W ridge on N facing slope with good views from W through N to E. Castle (TS066-066----) 208m to NNE and church (TS066-068001-) 250m to SE. Natural spring well with partial evidence of a stone surround now covered in thorn bushes making examination impossible. No votive offerings visible and well no longer visited by people in the locality. According to the OS letters there was an ash tree growing over the well in the early 1800s which was not present in 1840 and that there was a local tradition that the well had miraculously moved a location at the nearby church to its present location (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 3, 36).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1930 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Tipperary collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1840. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.