Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Kilmacthomas, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmacthomas
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St Johns Well
- Latest-edition OS map
- St Johns Well
- Coordinates
- 52.20608, -7.41148
- SMR number
- WA015-041----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 in a little fold on a gentle S-facing slope. A natural spring, now back-filled, is the origin of a rush-filled channel (Wth c. 5m) running SE (L c. 15m) and then SW. There are no known associations and there is no evidence of veneration.
Compiled by: Michael Moore.
Date of upload/revision: 10th December 2010.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.