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Ritual site - holy well

Faithlegg, County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ritual site - holy well, Faithlegg, County Waterford, 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
Faithlegg
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Tobershonock
Coordinates
52.25824, -7.01466
SMR number
WA010-002----

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a gentle NW-facing slope, and marked similarly as Tobershonack on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It is known locally as St. Ita's well (Decie, 1983, 49), but is now replaced by a pump-house.

Decie (1983) Old Waterford Society survey. Decies No. 24, 42-57.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 10 November 2010

Nearby in the register

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

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