Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Moorstown (mora Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moorstown (mora Par.)
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Nicholas Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Nicholas Well
- Coordinates
- 52.44654, -7.77966
- SMR number
- TS069-060002-
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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 a slightly marshy level area on a gentle WSW-facing slope, in pasture. Mora Church (TS069-060001-) is located 70m to the NW. This holy well was dedicated to St. Nicholas of Myra, as was the nearby church (Power 1938, 66). According to the OSL (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 3, 83 (251)) stations were performed at the well on Good Friday. The well is depicted on the 1st (1840) and 1906 ed. OS 6-inch map as a small circular feature less than 10m in diameter. A drain (long axis N–S) extends c. 100m N of the well and joins a stream. The holy well is no longer visible above ground level. It is likely that both it and the drain were blocked up during drainage and land consolidation works.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
Power, P. 1938 Some old churches of Decies, JRSAI, 68, 55-68.
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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.