Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Well
Kilmacthomas, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmacthomas
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobermore
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobermore
- Coordinates
- 52.20061, -7.41594
- SMR number
- WA015-052----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Marked on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as 'St. John's Well', and situated under a cliff (H 2m) at the top of a W-facing slope overlooking the NW-SE Mahon River, c. 50m to the W. It comprises of a natural spring rising in a recess (dims. 3.5m x 2m) on the cliff with a blackthorn tree growing over it, but there is no evidece of or record of veneration.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Compiled by: Michael Moore.
Date of upload/revision: 13 December 2010.
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.