Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Faithlegg, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Faithlegg
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobershonock
- Coordinates
- 52.25824, -7.01466
- SMR number
- WA010-002----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
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
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.