Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Kilnagrange, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilnagrange
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Holy Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- Holy Well
- Coordinates
- 52.22043, -7.45256
- SMR number
- WA015-026----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Situated in pasture at the bottom of the valley of a NW-SE stream, with the stream c. 10m to the W. This is a natural spring covered in briars. There is no evidence of veneration or information on the associations of the well, but a stile to a roadway at N indicates useage at one time. Fews church (WA015-022001-) is c. 250m to the NW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore.
Date of upload: 10th December, 2010.
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Standing stone (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.