Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Glebe (Glenahiry By.), County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glebe (Glenahiry By.)
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Kilronan Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Kilronan Well
- Coordinates
- 52.31306, -7.77654
- SMR number
- WA001-024003-
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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
Situated on a slight N-facing slope on the floor of an E-W valley at the N foot of Bawnfune Hill. The well is on the NW side of a road approaching the parish church of Kilronan (WA001-024001-) which is c. 70m to the E within a subrectangular graveyard (WA001-024002-). The well (dims. 1.15m x 1.3m) has a masonry canopy surmounted by a cement cross. (Power 1938a, 58)
Power, Rev. P. (1938a) Some old churches of the Decies, JESAI 68, 55-68.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 26 August 2010
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.