Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Kilmoyemoge East, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmoyemoge East
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tobernanangel
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tobar na n-Aingeal
- Coordinates
- 52.24235, -7.29389
- SMR number
- WA016-007----
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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 similarly on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and described by John O'Donovan c. 1840 as a holy well (O'Flanagan, 1929, 26). It is situated about the mid-point of a steep S-facing slope. This is a rectangular masonry structure (L 1.85m; Wth 1.05m; H 1.35m) with a limestone plaque bearing the inscription 'AK 1846' on the front of the canopy. AK was Andrew Kirwan, who presumably built the structure. The well water flows immediately S into a large six-sided pool (dims. c. 15m N-S; c. 10m E-W) defined by low masonry walls. The pool is circumvented by a public road N-S, but there is no evidence of veneration.
Compiled by: Michael Moore.
Date of upload/revision: 20th December, 2010.
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.